TYAN yesterday officially announced the beginning of mass supplies of its High-End dual-processor Socket A mainboard for servers and workstations based on AMD-760MPX chipset. I am talking about Thunder K7X. Let me remind you that although this mainboard was launched last November, the mass shipments haven’t yet been actually started. The bug discovered in the South Bridge of AMD-760MPX chipset forced TYAN to hold its high-end product as the problems with the USB bus discovered in AMD-768 chip could harm the company’s image.

As we learned from TYAN, starting from March 2002 the company has been getting new AMD-768 chip revision marked as B2, which has normal USB bus implementation. The other mainboard makers are most likely to be also receiving the correct chip revision now that is why there should be the whole bunch of dual-processor Socket A mainboards in the market very soon.

As for TYAN Thunder K7X, it has two Socket A spots, 4 DIMM slots for Registered PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM angled at 25 degrees to the board surface (for 1U rack-mount cases), two 66MHz 64bit PCI slots, three 33MHz 32bit PCI slots and an AGP Pro slot (supporting AGP 4x). The mainboard is also equipped with two 3Com 3C920 network controllers, integrated ATI RAGE XL graphics adapter and an optional Adaptec AIC-7899w Ultra160 SCSI controller. The mainboard requires special power supply units.

More details on TYAN Thunder K7X are available here.