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I am sure it was purely by accident too. What had happened was, all this info about the two chips was found in the latest set of ForceWare drivers.
The two chips are the 9300M G and the 9500M GS. No word on whether they will actually be better than the 8000 series as the numbers suggest, or if its going to be more like what ATI did with their cards and inject some truly mediocre cards but with higher model numbers.
Some other info they were somehow able to pull from the drivers package was that they appear to have support for HDMI output for TV’s and hardware decoding of HD content when used in conjunction with proper software. Other than that, we can assume that we’ll be seeing some 9000 series desktop cards soon too, and if they are already putting the drivers out there, you can probably expect an announcement any time now.
NVIDIA already prepping GeForce 9M series? [via electronista]
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Generally the way nVidia creates model numbers is the first digit represents the base chipset, with the remaining 3 representing more or less how gimped that particular model is from the reference. Usually the low end of the next generation is worse than the high end of the previous (that is a 8300 for instance would probably be worse than a 7800).
That being said, the GeForce 8800 is actually based on the G92 chipset, and nVidia recently announced a new laptop targeted version of the G92, the G92M, so my guess would be this is in preparation for some later releases of laptop graphics cards based on the G92M chipset.