ULi officially launched its M1697 single-chip AMD K8 platform yesterday. DigiTimes has all the details, along with shots of M1697-based boards made by Jetway, EPoX, ASRock, & Abit.

"The M1697 has four PCIe digital controllers serving 20 PCIe lanes, Tai said. The supported PCIe configurations include one x16 or two x8 connections for graphics cards and three x1 or one x4 connections for I/O devices. The M1697 can support dual-card graphics solutions, such as Nvidia SLI, using PCIe x8 cards, and ULi showcased its reference board featuring Nvidia SLI technology as supported by a pair of the M1695 and M1697 chips, with the combination of chips being able to support two PCIe x16 cards."