Rumor: Intel is working on NUC Extreme with ‘third-party’ video card

According to a roadmap that seems to come from Intel, Intel will release a successor to the Hades Canyon-NUC at the end of this year. Details about this compact PC are still scarce, but the roadmap speaks of the presence of Tiger Lake-U and 3rd party graphics.

The roadmap was published on Twitter by @momomo_us, which releases processor news more often. The rumor is in line with that at the beginning of this year about a successor to Hades Canyon. According to the roadmap, the NUC Extreme that will appear at the end of 2020 will be a successor to Hades Canyon from 2018. Intel would provide the PC with Core i5s and Core i7s with the Tiger Lake-U.

Tiger Lake is the generation of processors for laptops that will be released in the middle of this year and that Intel makes on a 10nm + process. The Tiger Lake CPUs are also Intel’s first products to receive a Xe GPU. Xe is Intel’s new GPU architecture that should bring significant performance improvements over Intel’s current graphics architecture and will also be used for separate video cards.

It is striking that the roadmap nevertheless speaks of the presence of a third-party video card for the upcoming NUC Extreme. Hades Canyon had an AMD Vega RX M-gpu, as part of the Kaby Lake G-chip in which the gpu is combined with the cpu in a package. In the past, Intel also marketed NUCs with an AMD Radeon 540. It is unknown which video card is involved in the upcoming NUC Extreme, if the rumor is true. The NUC in question has a 1.35 liter body, compared to 1.2 liter for Hades Canyon.