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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.2 Processor and Chipset Overview
Built upon the functionality and capability of the AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3000
Series Processors, up to 64 cores. The M12SWA-TF motherboard oers maximum I/O
expendability, energy eciency, and data reliability in a 7nm process architecture, and is
optimized for embedded storage solutions, networking applications, or cloud-computing
platforms.
With support of the new microarchitecture 7nm process technology, the M12SWA-TF
drastically increases system performance for a multitude of server applications.
The AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3000 Series Processors support the following
features:
• ACPI Power Management Logic Support Rev. 6.2
• Adaptive Thermal Management/Monitoring
• PCI-E 4.0 w/transfer rate of up to 16.0 GT/s
• System Management Bus (SMBus) Specication Version 3.1.1
1.3 Special Features
This section describes the health monitoring features of the M12SWA-TF motherboard. The
motherboard has an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports system health
monitoring.
Recovery from AC Power Loss
The Basic I/O System (BIOS) provides a setting that determines how the system will respond
when AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for the system to
remain powered o (in which case you must press the power switch to turn it back on), or
for it to automatically return to the power-on state. See the Advanced BIOS Setup section
for this setting. The default setting is Last State.