Intel makes Bean Canyon Lite NUCs public

Intel has announced two new NUCs and those are Lite versions of the Bean Canyon PCs. The compact systems have previously unannounced processors of the 14nm Kaby Lake Refresh generation.

The Bean Canyon Lite models are the Intel NUC8i3BEHS and NUC8i5BEHS with a Core i3-8140U dual-core and a Core i5-8260U quad-core respectively. These are still processors from the Kaby Lake Refresh generation, and Fanless Tech wonders if the release has anything to do with the limited availability of Intel’s Gemini Lake Pentiums and Celerons, which the June Canyon NUCs are equipped with. The original Bean Canyon NUCs came out in 2018, featuring 28W Coffee Lake U chips with Iris Plus Graphics 655 GPUs.

In terms of design, the NUCs are unchanged. On the front are two USB 3.1 gen 2 ports, one of 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 dimensions are 117x112x51mm.