Intel also reached out to ServerTheHome to confirm the news after its publication: Its useful life was also much shorter than I expected, and after three years it started to become unreliable either being very slow or crashing, and no OS re-installation would fix that.īut back to the main story that was first reported by ServeTheHome, and later confirmed by other publications such as Engadget and Tom’s Hardware. One family member asked for a reliable mini PC, so I recommended a Core-i5 NUC and while it mostly worked fine, we had to purchase a separate USB WiFI dongle as the built-in wireless module would not connect reliably to our router 6 meters away. I have mostly read praises about the NUC family over the years, but I’ve had a mixed experience myself. They won’t directly compete against their customers anymore, although it’s unclear if this was part of the decision… We first wrote about Intel NUC in 2014, but the company’s first NUC was launched in 2013, and I can only imagine Intel decided to kill the NUC business in order to focus on its core business which is to sell processors. Intel has just decided to shut down its Next Unit of Compute (NUC) business selling mini PC, PC, boards, and modules directly to customers, as the company told partners they will stop direct investment into that part of their business.
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