by Anton Shilov
07/01/2003 | 04:24 AM
NVIDIA Corporation announced that initial mainboards based on the nForce3 Professional, the company’s first single-chip, core-logic solution for professional computing environments powered by AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processor, is now in volume production.
The first workstation core-logic from NVIDIA is the nForce3 Pro 150 manufactured using 0.15 micron technology and provides essential mix of features for workstations based on AMD Opteron processors, including, Hyper-Transport link, AGP 8x, PCI, 3 ATA-33/66/100/133 channels with RAID 0,1 and 0+1 support, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, USB 2.0, AC’97 audio and so on.
The first ever mainboard based on the first workstation core-logic from NVIDIA is ASUS SK8N also officially announced today. Our readers probably know its specifications from this news-story, however, I will list them once again:
The ASUS SK8N mainboard will be available in early July. Full 1P workstation solutions from a variety of workstation system integrators will be available in late July, NVIDIA said.
Later this year NVIDIA will launch yet another core-logic for AMD 64-bit server and workstation processors. The official name of the newcomer will be nForce3 Pro 250 and it will boast the support of 4 Serial ATA-150 ports as well as Gigabit Ethernet in addition to existing capabilities provided by the nForce3 Pro 150 (see this news-story for more information).