Rumor: Intel is working on NUC Extreme with ‘third party’ video card – Computer – News

According to a roadmap that seems to come from Intel, Intel will release a successor to the Hades Canyon NUC at the end of this year. Details on this compact PC are still sparse, but the roadmap speaks of the presence of Tiger Lake-U and third-party graphics.

The roadmap was published on Twitter by @momomo_us, which often publishes processor news. The rumor is in line with that from the beginning of this year about a successor to Hades Canyon. According to the roadmap, the NUC Extreme that will be released at the end of 2020 will be a successor to Hades Canyon from 2018. Intel would provide the PC with Core i5s and Core i7s with the Tiger Lake-U.

Tiger Lake is the generation of processors for laptops that will be released in the middle of this year and that Intel makes on a 10nm + process. Tiger Lake CPUs are also Intel’s first products to feature an X.^e-gpu. Xe is Intel’s new GPU architecture that should bring significant performance improvements over Intel’s current graphics architecture and will also be used for standalone video cards.

It is striking that the roadmap nevertheless speaks of the presence of a video card from a third party for the upcoming NUC Extreme. Hades Canyon had an AMD Vega RX M GPU as part of the Kaby Lake G chip where the GPU was in a package is combined with the cpu. Intel also released NUCs with one in the past AMD Radeon 540 on the market. The video card for the upcoming NUC Extreme, if the rumor is correct, is not known. The NUC in question has a 1.35-liter housing, compared to 1.2 liters for Hades Canyon.

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