Intel® NUC

Designed by Intel, NUC (Next Unit of Computing) is a small-form-factor personal computer. It has had covered a journey of eight generations as of now, starting from Sandy Bridge-based Celeron CPUs in the first generation through Ivy Bridge-based Core i3 and i5 CPUs in the second generation to Gemini Lake-based Pentium and Celeron CPUs and Kaby Lake-based Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs in the seventh and eighth generations.

A powerful 4×4-inch mini PC, the Intel® NUC comes with entertainment, gaming, and productivity features, including a customizable board that is ready to accept the memory, storage, and operating systems that you want. The Intel® NUC mini PCs are ready to use complete mini PCs with Windows 10, are configured and tuned by Intel for optimal performance and provide a 3-year warranty for the complete product. The Intel® NUC kits are built for businesses, students, educators, and DIYers and feature a customizable board and chassis that are ready to accept a wide variety of memory, storage, and operating systems. They come with a full range of Intel® processors. Intel® NUC boards come with a soldered-on processor and can be purchased independently of the kit, providing a mini PC that’s fully customizable, scalable, and configurable for a wide variety of solutions.

At inception, the NUC was seen as Intel’s answer to the Apple Mac Mini format. Since the NUC boards can be bought with a case, it was also termed as a more powerful Raspberry. The NUC can also be seen as an extension or continuation of Intel’s earlier mobile-on-desktop (MoDT) initiative that was spearheaded by AOpen as early as 2004.