Specifications and images Intel NUC mini PCs with Kaby Lake are online

Intel’s roadmap for NUC mini PCs has appeared online and lists upcoming systems with Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake. The most powerful NUC with Kaby Lake gets a Core i7 with Iris graphics. This should be published in early 2017.

The NUCs with Kaby Lake processors will be nicknamed Baby Canyon and Intel will ship them with Core i7, i5 and i3. The Core i7 is an economical dual-core with U suffix, which has a TDP of 28W. The chip’s GPU is an Iris Graphics model. Details such as clock speeds, Intel does not mention in the slides, which FanlessTech has put online.

The Core i5 and Core i3 of the Kaby Lake generation that come in the Baby Canyon NUCs have a TDP of 15W. Intel provides the mini PCs with USB-C with support for Thunderbolt 3, but the displayport 1.2 signal also runs through this interface. In addition, it concerns USB 3.1 generation 2, for throughput speeds of up to theoretically 10 Gbit/s. Furthermore, there is HDMI 2.0 for sending 4k images at 60Hz.

There are two USB 3.0 ports on both the front and back, with two more USB 2.0 headers in the housing. There is also a first-generation USB 3.1 port for up to 5Gbit/s speeds. Compared to previous NUCs, the SD card slot has been exchanged for a micro SD variant.

The Apollo Lake system is nicknamed Arches Canyon. This model gets Celeron-socs with a TDP of 10W and Intel HD Graphics. This NUC also contains hdmi 2.0, but usb-c is missing. Intel will supply this cheaper variant as a barebone and as a PC with 32GB emmc storage and 2GB ddr3l.