It is not a secret that Intel's Intel Developer Forum 2013 has been focused on mobility, spearheaded by Intel's latest Bay Trail platform and while it enables Intel to compete with the likes of Qualcomm, ARM, Nvidia and Samsung it is still far away from what we expected but still a good way for Intel to go. The surprise came in the form of Bay Trail-based NUC that should show up in Q1 2014 and im at US $139 price tag.

Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) did not gain much support recently but if Intel manages to get the new, internally known as the Forest Canyon, platform in the price range that it plans, they just might have a winner on their hands. The NUC DN2810FYK uses yet to be announce Celeron N2810 Bay Trail-M chip clocked at 2GHz for the CPU and 756MHz for the GPU part. The chip looks a lot like the Atom Z3680 aimed for tablets but with a slightly higher 7.5W TDP.

The new NUC also incorporates HDMI, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, Intel's 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. According to preliminary information, the dimensions are set at 116.6x112x55mm and it has an active fan/heatsink. It will be able to run both Android and Windows OS and with a US $139 price tag, Intel definitely has a winner on its hands.

Of course, Intel will have a hard time competing with the AMD Temash APU, if AMD makes a similar move.



Source: Hexus.net.