November 28, 2006.

I-Bus Corp. announces today the introduction of the ThornbackRay 64-bit Dual-Core Xeon PICMG 1.3 Single Board Computer, supporting the Intel® Dual-Core Xeon processor LV in the mFCPGA package. The ThornbackRay is optimized for high-speed processing.

 "ThornbackRay is one of our high performance and high reliability SBC with outstanding computing power. “Our customers can have single or dual Xeon in this high performance SBC" said Johni Chan, President and CEO of I-Bus. "The outstanding architecture of this SBC allows the board to be high performance and scalable."
Like all I-Bus Single Board Computer products, the ThornbackRay is based on the standard PCI architecture, for use in passive backplanes, meeting all of the PICMG (PCI Industrial Manufacturers Group) requirements.

The ThornbackRay Incorporates the following feature set:

• Four Double Data Rate (DDR) 240-pin DIMM sockets for up to 8 GBytes of 400/533MHz DDR2 SDRAM.

• Intel's E7520 and 6300ESB chipset with support for 667MHz front side bus speeds.

• Dual Gigabit Ethernet with dual LED indicators and PCI Express x4 interface based Intel 82571.

• ATI Radeon 7000 graphics controller with up to 64MB graphic memory.

• Dual EIDE, dual SATA, and six USB 2.0.

• 5.25"/3.5" floppy drive controller.

• Two serial ports and one parallel ports.

• Three PCI Express x4, one PCI Express x8, and four PCI master.

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

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