Intel announces NUCs with Coffee Lake-U processors

Intel has officially announced the NUC PCs and barebones with Coffee Lake-U processors. It concerns five models that users can provide themselves with ram and storage and the two PCs with AMD Radeon GPUs, the details of which appeared earlier.

The five NUC kits codenamed Bean Canyon are the NUC8i7BEH, NUC8i5BEH, NUC8i5BEK, NUC8i3BEH, NUC8i3BEK. The models with H suffix are 51mm high, those with K suffix 36mm. The tall models can hold 2.5″ HDDs and support Intel’s Optane memory. The other dimensions are the same: 117 mm x 112 mm. Intel uses the Core i7-8559U, Core i5-8259U and Core i3-8109U for the barebones The GPU is the Plus Graphics 655.

The barebones can be equipped with 32GB DDR4 and there is an M2 slot for SSDs. There are two USB 3 ports on the front, which can be used for charging. At the back are two more USB 3 ports and a USB-c port with ThunderBolt 3 support. HDMI 2a is also present and the SD card reader is on the side. The Core i7 NUC kit will retail for $499, the Core i5 $399 and the Core i3 $299.

Intel has also announced the NUC PCs codenamed Crimson Canyon. These are the two systems with a Core i3-8121U and an AMD Radeon 540 GPU and type numbers NUC8i3CYSM and NUC8i3CYSN. The NUC8i3CYSM has 8GB integrated ddr4 and the NUC8i3CYSN 4GB. These systems do have standard storage and an OS: a 1TB hard drive with Windows 10 on it. There are also two HDMI 2.0a ports, four USB 3.0 interfaces, support for Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi-ac, infrared and an SD card reader.