July 18, 2005.

I-Bus Corp. announces today the introduction of the SolarRay 64-bit Dual Xeon Single Board Computer. The SolarRay is optimized for high-speed processing, supporting processors of 3.4GHz and above.

"SolarRay is one of our high performance and high reliability SBC. “Our customer can have the richest feature set in a SBC with the power of Intel Dual Xeon" said Johni Chan, President and CEO of I-Bus. "The outstanding architecture of this SBC allows the board to be high performance, highly reliable, and superb computing power"
Like all I-Bus Single Board Computer products, the SolarRay is based on the standard PCI architecture, for use in passive backplanes, meeting all of the PICMG (PCI Industrial Manufacturers Group) requirements.

The SolarRay Incorporates the following feature set:

• Four Double Data Rate (DDR) DIMM sockets for up to 8 GBytes of 200/266MHz DDR2 SDRAM with two 64-bit DDR channels.

• Intel's E7501 chipsets with ICH3-S /P64H2 and support for 533/400MHz front side bus speeds.

• Dual Gigabit Ethernet with dual LED indicators and compliant with IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u, IEEE803.3x, IEEE802.3y, IEEE802.3ab, WfM 2.0, and PC2001.

• ATI Rage XLGraphics controller with 8MB frame buffer memory.

• EIDE, two SATA, four USB 2.0, and AC’97 2.3 Audio.

• 5.25"/3.5" floppy drive controller.

• Two serial ports with 2x16C550 UARTs, and 4 high driving GPIO.

• System monitoring, Watchdog Timer, and Solid State Disk support.

The SolarRay supports a variety of operating systems, including DOS/Windows, Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 2000/2003, Windows XP and LINUX.