Intel To Stop Producing NUC Mini PCs – SlashGear

Surprisingly, Intel’s NUC computers represented one of the last PC offerings from the company, and the transition away from NUCs is a sign that Intel is now completely out of the pre-built PC market. Besides creating processors and chips, Intel will continue supporting other developers’ efforts in making NUC computers and gladly offer their technology to their partners. Still, this highlights an end of an era for the legendary manufacturer.

The first NUC computers hit the market in 2013, and these offerings were usually incredibly pared down compared to a normal PC. To get a NUC to a small size, technology and power had to be sacrificed. However, NUC computers continued to evolve over the years, with some iterations getting dedicated graphics cards, like the Intel NUC 12 Extreme “Dragon Canyon,” which is shocking when most NUC motherboards measured just four inches by four inches. Despite Intel exiting the production of their NUC mini-computers, these tiny computers can still be found by other manufacturers, such as Apple’s Mac Mini, and Intel’s chips will continue to pop up in NUC computers from other producers — you’ll just never see a brand new NUC computer specifically from Intel.

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