This announcement is NOT an official statement from the manufacturer or the distributor and is based on a chain of rumors repeated through several sources.
Since we all know who runs this site, maybe its best if we waited for an official statement.
They have had stock of the boards for 2 years now, they were ust waiting for os4 to run stably on the machine, which it is now. I personally witnessed serveral x5000s running throughout the Amiwest show. Matter of fact there were as many X5000s on display as classics almost!