Photos show passively cooled Chaco Canyon-NUC with Celeron N3350

There are pictures and specifications of the Intel NUC8CHK on a Chinese forum. That is a new mini computer from Intel with a 6W processor that is completely passively cooled. It would still be a prototype. It is not yet known when the Chaco Canyon-NUC will be released.

The new NUC is extensively reviewed in a forum topic on Koolshare. According to the topic starter, this is a prototype. It can be seen on the packaging and in the specification sheet that Intel gives the code name Chaco Canyon to the NUC. Intel has not announced the NUC itself.

The processor soldered to the motherboard is a Celeron N3350. That is a 14nm processor of the Apollo Lake generation with a TDP of 6W. The dual core is clocked at 1.1GHz and has a maximum turbo speed of 2.4GHz. The Celeron has an Intel HD Graphics 500 GPU.

There are also 4GB of memory and 64GB of emmc flash storage soldered on the motherboard. The memory cannot be expanded, but there is room for an extra m2-2280 SSD. The housing has, among other things, a gigabit Ethernet connection and two HDMI outputs.

When Intel will release the Chaco Canyon-NUC and what the device will cost, it is not yet known. In 2014, Intel already released a series of passively cooled NUCs with Atom processor. Last year, a variant of a high-end NUC with passive cooling and a Core i7-8550U laptop processor appeared.