Motherboards in 2002: Preview from Comdex

ABIT's relationship with Intel has been improving dramatically over the years and it is to the point now where they are viewed as a tier 1 manufacturer in the eyes of many, including Intel. Because of this it's no surprise that ABIT won't be releasing a P4X266 based motherboard. On the Intel side their booth was dominated by i850 and i845 based solutions with the promise of a DDR capable i845 board within a few weeks. Remember that the DDR capable i845 chipset will still be called the i845 since there is no physical modifications made to the chip in order to enable DDR support; the only changes that must be made are all board level adjustments.

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The SD7A is also in the pipeline which uses the SiS 645 chipset for the Pentium 4.

On the server end, ABIT will be releasing the SSR-2P using the Serverworks GC-LE chipset. This board will support two Socket-603 Intel Xeon processors (including Prestonia - 0.13-micron Xeon). The board is still under development as you can see that many of the components are still not in place yet.

On the video card side, ABIT is working on their NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 and Ti 500 cards, which they claimed should be ready very soon.

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Like most other motherboard manufacturers, ABIT will be releasing their own Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.