Intel Teases NUC 12 Extreme “Dragon Canyon” with Support for 12th Gen Core i9 Desktop Processors

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Intel has shared a new video that includes a small teaser for its next-generation NUC, the NUC 12 Extreme.



Code named “Dragon Canyon,” the new NUC will feature an LGA 1700 socket that enables support for a 12th Gen Intel Core i9 desktop processor, according to a component board displayed at the end of the video. This is a notable change from the current NUC 11 Extreme Kit models, which leverage Core i9-11900KB and Core i7-11700B Tiger Lake-H mobile processors.



The component board also confirms that Intel’s Dragon Canyon NUC will feature support for up to three PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSDs, Intel Wi-Fi 6E, Thunderbolt 4, 10 GbE LAN, USB 3.2 Gen 2, and HDMI. Two sticks of DDR4-3200 RAM are also shown, suggesting that the NUC 12 Extreme won’t support DDR5 memory.









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[Dogsofjune]

With an amazing price tag I bet. The antiquated NUC I have is still kicking, but that poor i3 is showing its age for sure

 

[Brian_B]

I kinda like it out on that posterboard like that. Too bad it comes in a tiny box