Intel continues to quietly expand the NUC family, its lineup of barebones mini PCs. Today we noticed two new low-end boxes, based on Intel's low-end 14nm Braswell chips instead of the Ultrabook-class Broadwell CPUs in the more expensive models.
There are two new boxes to look at, each with decidedly unmemorable product numbers instead of names: the NUC5CPYH includes a 1.6GHz (2.16GHz Turbo) dual-core Celeron N3050, and it will supposedly be available this month. The NUC5PPYH uses a 1.6GHz (2.4GHz Turbo) quad-core Pentium N3700 instead, and it's coming out at some point in July.
A quick refresher on Braswell: it uses the same "Airmont" CPU cores and cut-down Broadwell GPU as the recent Cherry Trail Atom processors, but the Celeron and Pentium parts run at a higher TDP (6W versus 2W for the Atoms), which lets them run at higher speeds for longer. They also support technologies like SATA, which makes them better suited for use in low-end desktops and laptops than their Atom counterparts. They also improve over older Bay Trail-D Celeron and Pentium chips by supporting more USB 3.0 ports and faster DDR3 1600 RAM.
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