Off the again of Intel’s announcement of its 10th era Comet Lake vPro processors for the 400-series chipset, ASRock Industrial has introduced some particulars about its incoming product stack. Aimed extra in direction of the workstation and server market, it plans to launch fashions on Intel’s Q470E, H420E, and W480 chipsets. The stack contains quite a lot of totally different fashions with mini-ITX, micro-ATX, and ATX type elements all catered to.
ASRock Industrial’s 400-series mini-ITX fashions, that are designed to supply a lower-cost to the end-user, embrace the IMB-1220-L and IMB-1220-D. These are each primarily based on the Q470 chipset and embrace two reminiscence slots with help for as much as 64 GB of DDR4-2933. Both of those fashions additionally embrace an Intel 2.5 G and Intel Gigabit Ethernet controller pairing designed for industrial utility.
Also within the Q470E mini-ITX product stack is the IMB-1222 and IMB-1222-WV, that are skinny mini-ITX fashions with decreased top IO. These additionally embrace help for 64 GB of DDR4-2933 reminiscence. The ASRock Industrial IMB-1222 helps a 12 V energy enter, whereas the IMB-1222-WV has a 12-28 V DC-input for purposes that require help for wider voltages.
Also introduced however with no specs is the IMB-1221-L and the IMB-1221-D, each of that are primarily based on the H420E chipset.
For W480E, ASRock Rack has a pair of mini-ITX options: the IMB-X1220-L and IMB-X1222-WV. These helps each Xeon W-1200 and Comet Lake-S desktop processors.
ASRock Rack has additionally introduced two micro-ATX fashions, the IMB-1313 primarily based on Intel’s Q470E chipset, whereas it additionally has a W480E variant, the IMB-X1313, which is able to probably have extra premium options.
On the ATX facet of issues, the IMB-1711 relies on the Q470 chipset; and the IMB-X1711 on W480E.
I feel I can spot a sample…
X = W480E
12×0 and 12×1 are mITX
12×2 and 12×3 are thin-mITX
13xx are microATX
17xx are ATX
ASRock Industrial hasn’t unveiled full specs for its Q470E, H420E, or W480E embedded motherboards, nor has it revealed any info on pricing or availability.
