Taiwan's Iwill will next month ship an EDA/CAD-oriented workstation motherboard capable of supporting up to 64GB of memory.

The DK88 is driven by twin AMD Opteron 2xx series processors. Each connects to a bank of eight DIMM slots designed to hold up to 32GB of ECC-enabled DDR SDRAM.

The board sports a PCI Express x16 and x8 slots for graphics and PCI-X 133 slots for other add-ins. There's an 8MB ATI Rage XL VGA controller on board, for server applications. Networking comes courtesy of twin Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The board also features a 3GBps Serial ATA controller with RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 support and the ability to control up to four devices, part of its Nvidia nForce 4 Pro 2200 chipset. There's an IDE controller too, capable of running four EIDE peripherals.

In June, Tyan announced (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/01/tyan_eightway_opteron/) its S4881 motherboard and M4881 daughterboard which together can take up to eight Opteron CPUs and up to 128GB of RAM. The boards - and a server based on them, the Thunder K8QW - are due to ship in volume this quarter.

Iwill did not provide pricing. ®

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