Roughly two years after the original unofficially released intention to develop a QBM DRAM supporting platform, VIA Technologies demonstrated the actual product at the massive LAN party QuakeCon 2003. This web-site was first to publish the pictures of VIA PT880-based system scheduled to emerge in the market later this year. 

VIA PT880 chipset will be the first core-logic to support both DDR and QBM memory in dual-channel configurations. The upcoming chipset from VIA also supports 400, 533 and 800MHz PSB, Hyper-Threading, AGP 8x, Serial ATA-150 and so on. Its main advantage, however, lies in the support of QBM, a type of memory allowing to reach higher memory bandwidth using existing memory chips, such as DDR400 (PC3200) (read more about QBM technology here). 

As you may see from the picture, there seems to be nothing really special about mainboard design as everything needed to support the QBM lies in the chipset and its memory controller. This is absolutely correct since QBM memory does not require anything special from mainboards, including types of memory slots.

Due to an unknown reason VIA Technologies used typical DDR SDRAM memory modules from Corsair in dual-channel mode to demonstrate its new product for Intel Pentium 4 platform. This is very strange why VIA decided not to utilise already well-known QBM memory modules in order to showcase the PT880 in all its glory. One of the reasons of the decision is the actual absence of memory modules despite of the fact that PNY and OCZ had plans to deliver the appropriate products this year. Another possible reason is necessity to tune up the QBM support for flawless and stable work, a milestone QBM and supporting platforms may not has achieved by now.

Additionally, The Tech Report web-site claims that VIA demonstrated bunch of Socket 754 K8T800-based mainboards for AMD Athlon 64 processors, including models from ABIT, ASUS, Biostar, SOYO, EPoX, Jetway, and FIC.