According to the news, Intel officially released a new generation of top-level NUC mini machine "NUC 12 Extreme", codenamed "Dragon Canyon". In addition, there is a separate modular computing element "NUC 12 Extreme Compute Element", code-named "Eden Bay".
Let's see that the nuc 12 Extreme measures 357×189×120mm, uses a small chassis of about 8L, and the front panel skull light effect panel can also be customized. It can also fit a dual-slot, full-length PCIe x16 discrete graphics card with a maximum length of 12 inches (305 mm), and this time it was upgraded to PCIe 5.0. The biggest change is the first support for replaceable, upgradable CPU processors, standard with 12th generation Core, optional i9-12900 16 cores (8P+8E), i7-12700 12 cores (8P+4E), and the reference power consumption is 65W. However, the memory will support DDR4-3200, the maximum frequency can reach 3200MHz, and the maximum capacity is 64GB.
In terms of storage, it offers three M.2 sockets, one of which is an M.2 2280 connected processor that supports PCIe 4.0 x4, and the other M.2 2280 and an M.2 2242 connected chipset that supports PCIe 4.0 x4/NVMe or SATA 6Gbps. They support SSD RAID 0/1, as well as Intel Optane SSD and Optane M10/H10/H20 accelerator disks. In terms of networking, wireless provides AX201 Wi-Fi 6, AX211 Wi-Fi 6E, supports Bluetooth 5.2, and has a built-in antenna, wired upgrade 10 Gigabit network card, i9 version also has an additional 2.5 Gigabit network card (i225-LM).
In terms of interfaces, it is equipped with two Raiden 4 (support 5V/9V mobile phone fast charging), an HDMI 2.0b, a miniDP 1.4, and six USB-A 3.2 Gen2. NuC 12 Extreme will be available on Q2, and in terms of price, the i7 is configured at $1150 (7276 yuan) and the i9 is configured at $1450 (9175 yuan).
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