I suppose these are the 5 evaluation boards used to verify the design. Once that has been done and all the kinks have been worked out the beta boards will be produced.
It's a start but I still get a feeling the actual shipping product is long way off.
One thing I'd like to see, but am not sure if they would, is to change as many x1 PCI-Express slots to x16 slot plastic, regardless if they remain x1 electronically. The one between the two x16 slots might be lengthened if the chip there can be slid down a bit, not sure how difficult that layout change might be. My philosophy has become x16 slot plastic for all PCI-Express slots as possible, even if they only connect as x1, x4, x8 whatever, just to allow more possibility of plugging things in, as a x16 card will still work in smaller xN connection slots as long as it can physically slide into place.
