Intel Confirms 'Skull Canyon' Platform at CES 2020 - Positioned as an SFF Gaming PC, Could End Up Being a Steam Machine - mahermayeren

A month or so back, we talked about an upcoming platform from Intel dubbed "Skull Canyon". From what we heard it appeared to beryllium a revolutionized NUC political platform. At CES 2020, Intel has confirmed the being of this platform in an interview to Tom's Hardware as well as revealing some more profitable details about the same. The more absorbing affair they unconcealed was that Intel power not grocery store the device under its existing NUC branding – rather it mightiness be marketed A a "gaming Microcomputer" or a steamer simple machine. This is boost pendant by the fact that the Skull Canyon PC will non amount installed with a Windows OS.

Intel Skull Canyon NUC The original slide from Intel's documentation that revealed the world of the program.

Intel confirms Skull Canyon at CES 2020, positioned as a gaming device

The folks over at Uncle Tom's Hardware managed to get down a good look at the SFF PC and renowned its dimensions to be approximately 4x8x1 inches. This is a very tiny footprint and the casing has apparently not been finalized and currently supports a dark metallic gray look with rounded edges – which is a departure from the none-nonsense corners of the Intel NUC. THe Skull Chase logo is conspicuous on the PC and will rock DDR4 computer storage with an M.2 SSD. An H-Series Skylake processor is being utilized to power the PC and has a total TDP of 45W. According to info leaked before, the processor will house the powerful Iris Professional 580 graphics with 128MB of eDRAM.

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The Intel GT4e Iris diaphragm In favor of graphics are a Generation9 core that ship with select Skylake parts. The 'e' at the end refers to eDRAM which the Iris In favor 580 has around 128MB of. The eDRAM Acts as a fast L4 cache and facilitates the 72 Execution Units (EUs) present on the fail. The core time of the chip was 1 Ghz reported to Intel's selling material, but this could change in the closed thermal envelop of the NUC. The chip is rated at a resounding 1152 GFlops of Single Preciseness or 1.15 TFlops. To put this into view, this is slightly above the Mx 1.0 debut lifelike card: the Geforce GTX 750. The performance of the Iris Pro 580 in Skull Canon nonetheless, should be fair-and-square enough to lead modern titles at playable frame rates (at medium settings, 1080p).

Other specifications that we now be intimate admit the fact that the Skull Canon Microcomputer has 4 USB 3.0 ports, a LAN port, an SD card slot and 1 DisplayPort and HDMI each. A USB-C embrasure is also included and is uncomparable of the nearly large parts of the car because it runs Thunderbolt 3. IT would also allow the Skull Canyon flagship to utilize an extrinsic devoted GPU boosting high its gambling potential by orders of magnitude. The Skull Canon PC is expected to launch in the first half of 2020 and Intel has not notwithstandin decided upon a terms mark, although information technology would be off the hook to say that it would price at to the lowest degree as practically as the pricey NUCs.