Intel's NUC has always been a big fan of mini consoles and barebones. The detailed specifications of the Intel NUC 12 Extreme, code-named Dragon Canyon, have recently been exposed and are expected to be officially launched in the near future.
The biggest highlight of the NUC 12 Extreme is the support for the LGA1700 socket used by Intel 12th Generation Core, which means that this NUC will support CPU replacement, even for future 13th Generation Core Raptor Lake. The NUC 12 Extreme is available on the Core i9-12900 or i7-12700, and of course, as has been the usual practice, a CPU-free standard version should also be available.
Dragon Canyon's body volume is the same as the current NUC 11 Extreme (Beast Canyon), about 8L, 357 * 189 * 120mm, still support full-length graphics card, up to 30.5 cm, and support PCIe 5.0, so the future upgrade space will be very large.
Surprisingly, the memory does not offer the option of DDR5, only supporting DDR4 - rate 3200MHz. In terms of other configurations, the NUC 12 Extreme will provide a 10GbE 10 Gigabit network card, provide dual Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, and HDM2.0b video output.
According to the list of retail goods in the United States and the European Union that netizens broke, the price of NUC 12 Extreme is 1401 euros for the i9 version, about 10032 yuan; the i7 version is 1181 euros, about 8457 yuan, which is still a lot more expensive than NUC11.
Another point to say is that Intel's ARC discrete graphics will be launched in the first quarter, the first mobile version, earlier news pointed out that NUC12 will also be equipped with ARC series of discrete graphics, but because the desktop side will not be launched until Q2 this year, so if NUC 12 Extreme is launched next month, the version of ARC discrete graphics should not be launched for the time being.
(The picture in the text is from the Internet)