toms hardware After Exit, Intel Passes NUC Baton to Asus via New License Agreement

[bonami2]

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Intel recently left the NUC business, but today Asus and Intel revealed that they had reached a preliminary agreement that gives Asus a non-exclusive license to produce Intel NUC designs and develop next-generation NUCs. With its vast engineering resources, Asus will clearly be able to support the rather diverse product line that NUC has become.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-gets-license-to-make-intel-nucs

[schuck6566]

8 hours ago, bonami2 said:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-gets-license-to-make-intel-nucs

They were already making some sweet little comps, I hope they don't start going down hill without the NUC competition

Edited July 19, 2023 by schuck6566

[Snakecharmed]

In before Asus ROG NUCs for $1000 and bonus VRM coil whine. Who says no? Not Asus.

[bonami2]

6 hours ago, schuck6566 said:

They were already making some sweet little comps, I hope they don't start going down hill without the NUC competition

Did not even remember they did mini pc. Or maybe they are not available in Canada or too expensive and i skipped them. I love my Beelink box!

[Snakecharmed]

On 19/07/2023 at 09:50, Snakecharmed said:

In before Asus ROG NUCs for $1000 $2500 and bonus VRM coil whine. Who says no? Not Asus.

 

Fixed that for myself since I wasn't aware how insanely expensive pre-built Intel NUCs already were because I got a brand new barebones 8th gen NUC in 2021 as a home media server/future NVR for $300 and thought that wasn't too bad. If I were to do it over again today, I'd get a barebones ASRock DeskMini X300W plus a Ryzen 5 5600G that would blow away any NUC you could buy new or used for $300.

 

I didn't consider gaming NUCs because why would anyone?

 

Right on cue, now everyone in the hardware news universe is citing this brief article from Bits and Chips about a potential ROG NUC.

 

https://www.bitsandchips.it/english-news/asus-is-studying-the-heir-of-the-intel-nuc-13-extreme