ASRock Industrial has announced the release of a new industrial motherboard named IMB-X1904, designed for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation, the new product features an EATX form factor and is based on Intel Xeon 600 processors and the Intel W890 chipset.
The processor board is targeted at systems requiring high computing density, scalability, and stable 24/7 operation, including AI platforms, edge data centers, video analytics, testing and measurement systems, and industrial computing systems.
6th Generation XEON CPU
IMB-X1904 supports Intel Xeon 600 processors with up to 86 high-performance cores, delivering high performance in parallel computing. The platform is designed for continuous workloads and is suitable for processing large data sets, AI inference, and intensive industrial applications.
RAM
The motherboard supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-5200 RAM in quad-channel mode. It utilizes ECC RDIMM and RDIMM-3DS modules, increasing system reliability, providing error correction, and making the platform suitable for long-term operation in industrial environments.
Expansion options
IMB-X1904 comes with an advanced system of expansion slots for installing expansion cards, accelerators and specialized cards:
- 6 × PCI Express Gen5 x16
- 1 × PCI Express Gen5 x8
- 2 × MCIO (PCIe Gen5 x8)
This configuration allows for the integration of graphics accelerators, AI accelerators, high-speed network adapters, and NVMe solutions..
Data storage subsystem
The board supports flexible and high-performance storage configurations:
- 2 × M.2 Key M (PCIe Gen5 x4 и PCIe Gen4 x4)
- 1 × U.2
- 8 × SATA III
Support for RAID 0/1/5/10 arrays has been implemented, which provides a balance between performance and fault tolerance.
I/O interfaces
IMB-X1904 board has a wide range of interfaces for industrial applications:
- x4 × USB 3.2 Gen2
- 6 × USB 3.2 Gen1
- 3 × USB 2.0
- 2 × COM ports
- VGA
- 4 GPIO interfaces
This allows you to connect industrial peripherals and use the mainboard in automation systems..
Network capabilities
The motherboard is available in two versions:
- IMB-X1904 – 2 × Intel 1GbE LAN
- IMB-X1904-10G – 2 × Intel 10GbE LAN + 2 × Intel 1GbE LAN
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet model is designed for applications with high network loads and intensive data exchange.
Remote management
There is an option of support for the AI-M2-OOB-1G out-of-band management module, which provides:
- Remote system startup, shutdown, and reboot;
- Hardware status monitoring;
- OS health monitoring (heartbeat);
- BIOS recovery and CMOS clearing;
- Serial-over-LAN via a dedicated Ethernet channel.
This allows systems to be maintained even if the operating system or underlying network fails and reduces downtime in distributed installations.
