Who is a powerful miniature desktop for? That was the question running through my mind when I reviewed Intel's NUC 9 Extreme last year. It was the company's most powerful compact PC kit (NUC stands ...

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Despite stiff competition, Apple silicon has made it possible for Apple's Mac mini to outlast Intel's tiny computer initiative. Intel has been making tiny PCs for a long time now, going on more than a ...

The NUC, Intel’s mini PC, is not the first place you’d expect to see an LGA1700-based Intel Alder Lake processor — but it just might happen. User @9550pro on Twitter leaked an image showcasing what ...

Intel has officially unveiled the Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Mini PC and Kit, codename Serpent Canyon, which combines 12th gen Intel Core CPUs with Intel Arc A770M GPU, all inside a rather compact ...

Intel has teamed with storage champion Sabrent on a super-fast new NUC 11 Pro, which packs a PCIe 4.0-based NVMe M.2 SSD from Sabrent that pushes 5GB/sec reads. Inside of the new Intel NUC 11 Pro Mini ...

While Intel itself has given up on the NUC form factor, long-time compact PC vendor Asus has been licensed to handle all the intellectual property associate with the line. Small form factor computers ...

Intel's new NUC 13 Extreme "Raptor Canyon" PC is out in the wild, where it has been tested with NVIDIA's new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card... and man, what a combo it ...

NUCs are a line of small form factor, compact PCs originally developed and designed by Intel, but back in 2023, Intel decided to cease development and hand over the reins of the nuc brand to Asus.

We’ve come a long way from Intel’s original Next Unit of Computing modular computer that brought tiny computing to the mainstream. We’ve come so far, in fact, we’re not sure what’s actually “NUC-y” ...

Intel is updating its Next Unit of Computing (NUC) lineup of miniature computers with its 11th Gen processors, and it’s again including a gaming-focused model. The NUC 11 Enthusiast is a follow-up to ...