Andrew Cunningham
Since 2012, Intel has developed and sold its series of small PCs. The Next Unit of Computing series (NUC- rhymes with yuck-it was always a weird name) has always been closely associated with the Mac mini desktop series, but over the years, it has grown to include. compact workstations and gaming systems and small servers with multiple Ethernet ports.
But Intel appears throwing in the towel on the NUCaccording to a statement provided to The Verge earlier today.
Intel spokesman Mark Walton said Intel “decided to stop investing directly in the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) Business and focus our strategy on supporting our natural partners to continue NUC technology and growth.” This statement leaves room for change – Intel is still working with partners to bring NUCs or NUC-like products to market – but it looks like Intel’s days of making its own desktop computers are over.
Walton also said that Intel plans to continue “ongoing support for NUC products on the market,” so it appears that owners of NUC systems should still be able to get driver and BIOS updates and support for future updates.
The first price of NUCbased on a third-generation Intel Core processor using the Ivy Bridge architecture, it came out when Intel leaned heavily. that’s the new “ultrabook” trend.. In response to Apple’s MacBook Air, Intel gave the PC industry part of the fund of $ 300 million to create new laptops that include low-power (but very efficient) processors, fast storage, and lightweight and lightweight designs. down and parts of the legacy as built-DVD shepherds. Twelve years later, you still see the name ultrabook being thrown around a bit, but laptops like the MacBook Air have taken over the PC market so much that “ultrabook” and “regular laptop” are rarely recognized.
The NUC was an effort to bring the speed, size, and power of ultrabook applications to the desktop environment, replacing boxy, ugly office desktops with something you can hold in your hand. Small NUC PCs didn’t take over the desktop market the way ultrabooks came to dominate the laptop market, but the NUC still has a large universe of similar small PCs, many of which are cheap and easy to carry. buy than many NUCs were. Examples include but are not limited to Dell’s Optiplex Micro, Lenovo’s ThinkCentre Tiny, HP’s ProDesk and EliteDesk Mini systems, Gigabyte Brix machinesseveral models from PC motherboard manufacturers such as Asus and ASRock, and Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio.
The end of the NUC is the result of Intel’s recent financial problems – the company has had several problems since the end of the era of the PC epidemic, losses. billions of dollars as consumers, workstations, and server businesses all fail. The company has already implemented layoffs and reduced executive pay in response, and has announced its plans sell its pre-built server business in April.
Although Intel is still investing in several non-developing products – the company has said it is still committed to its new GPU business – CEO Pat Gelsinger is betting on the future of the company “Screenshot of IDM 2.0” strategy, in which Intel provides its chip manufacturing facilities to third-party chip manufacturers. This will put Intel in competition with Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC), Samsung, and GlobalFoundries.