After Intel NUC’s Death, ASUS Continues Further Development!
Jan. 19, 2024Recently, an Asus spokesperson clarified toFudzilla.comthat “the company won’t have an update to the NUC Extreme 7.5 liter device”. Essentially, this marks the end of Intel-based NUCs. The last of its kind, made by Intel, is notably theNUC 13 Extreme Kit,which came with a Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake13th Genprocessor.
The latest ROG NUC packs Intel’s latestCore Ultraprocessors (up to Core Ultra 9 185H) paired with Nvidia’s RTX 40 Series discrete GPUs. A small mini ITX personal computer with RTX 4070 will surely be way bigger, even when portability is the main focus.
The ROG NUC is 2.5 litres in volume. It boasts an impressive, super slim form factor and weighs 800 grams only. Overall, Asus has already impressed us with the ROG NUC. This does not have a battery like a laptop does, essentially functioning like a mini gaming desktop.
Overall, the new era of Asus NUC is upon us, and the brand is bringing some exciting options. These new Asus-based NUCs are ready for the era of AI-based personal computing, packing the brand-newNeural Processing Unit(NPU), which facilitates massive improvements for AI workloads, including offline (device-based) processing.
What are your thoughts on the death of Intel NUCs and the birth of Asus ones instead? Let us know in the comments below.
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