Where are the Opteron workstation motherboards?
COME THE 22nd of this month, Opteron will have been with us for three months. Even though Opteron's launch was essentially a server product launch, one would have expected workstation motherboards to have followed fast on the heels of its server siblings. Tyan, RioWorks, MSI, Iwill, Newisys, and AMD via Celestica have successfully launched their Opteron server board and system-based products, but there is still a dearth of workstation motherboards.
RioWorks was first out of the blocks with the first dual Opteron workstation motherboard. Asus was close behind with the first uni-processor design, which supports Nvidia's nForce3 platform processors. Akiba PC Hotline in Japan was first off the press to show MSI's VIA-based dual Opteron workstation board. So these boards are trickling out slowly, but why the big delay?
