Intel has decided to stop making the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), but the company will encourage its partners to continue making small form factor (SFF) PCs, the company said on Tuesday.
Update: Asus will take over Intel’s NUC business from July 18, though it won’t have access to the technology. Asus supports the NUC series based on Intel’s 10th to 13th-gen Core chips and they will make new models.
“Under the proposed agreement, ASUS will receive the exclusive license for Intel’s NUC system product line designs, which will enable the production and sale of 10th to 13th Gen NUC system products and future designs,” Intel said in a statement. “This will help ASUS to provide sales and continuity for Intel NUC customers. ASUS will launch a new business called ASUS NUC BU.
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Intel’s NUC won the compact PC, leaving the main chassis options to peers such as Dell and HP. But Intel’s idea seems natural, because Intel has refocused on its core businesses at the same time it has invested heavily in its manufacturing operations as well. startup business.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed the first report and Serve The Home, stating that Intel will continue to support NUCs that have already been shipped to the market.
“We have decided to stop investing directly in the Next Generation Compute (NUC) business and focus our efforts on supporting our partners to continue NUC technology and growth,” an Intel spokesperson said in an email. “This decision does not affect the remaining businesses of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) or Network and Edge Computing (NEX). In addition, we are working with our partners and customers to ensure that the transition goes smoothly and that we deliver on our commitments – including continued support for existing NUC products in the market.”
The idea ends almost a decade of Intel’s work to establish the NUC as a viable PC, and opens up other uses for SFF devices. The The first NUC it had a third generation Core i3 processor and became the basis of aa home theater PCand Intel to challenge itself in subsequent iterations reduce the chassis significantly. Intel’s NUC also impressed in two other respects. First, it ended establish the NUC as an integrated gaming platform competing with traditional sports, and, well, it just makes sense. Inserting the skulls into the chassis and giving them names like “Hades Canyon” attracted metalhead DIY builders.
Eventually, the competitors caught up, and Intel went under. In ours 2021 review of the “Beast Canyon” NUCAlaina Yee also said that Intel’s move to other components and a less robust chassis is reducing its appeal.
“Intel’s NUCs were once undisputed as the fastest, unsurpassed mini-PC gaming PCs,” Yee summarized. “But although it has the best equipment and looks for a DIY house, the size of Beast Canyon, its size, the most fragile problem, and the other kind of electricity bring weaknesses that give the competition an advantage.”
Intel’s NUCs are always sold as kits, with some options that you can install yourself and some that are supplied. Now, it looks like Intel is sunsetting its NUC line, handing it over to its environmental partners. For DIY enthusiasts, it’s not really a problem; making SFF PCs it comes with its challenges, but nothing you can’t overcome.
Intels departure from NUCs, however, is a traditional myth: Each manufacturer makes and sells its own devices. and the systems that go get the benefit of knowledge. (Microsoft’s entry into the PC and Surface business is drawing grumbling from its peers, too.) As Serve the Home noted, Intel has also sold off its server business. This means that even though Intel’s NUC may die, the crown will be passed on to all its peers waiting to usurp the SFF throne.