Intel tiger lake, the 11th gen cpus are part of the new nuc 11

Intel's 11th generation of Tiger Lake CPUs based on the NUC 11 series will land in the second half of 2020, according to FanlessTech. New NUCs that include the recently reported Phantom Canyon and Panther Canyon designs are expected to include the latest Intel Tiger Lake-U processors based on the 10nm + process node with advanced Xe graphics architecture.

Intel Tiger Lake 11th gen will be part of the upcoming NUC Phantom Canyon

Based on the details mentioned by FanlessTech, the NUC 11 Extreme and Performance NUC 11 will replace the current NUC 8 and NUC 9 series. This is the first time that a device has officially included Intel's Tiger Lake family. According to the source, the roadmap indicates that the NUC 11 series will be available in mid-2020, but will move to the second half of 2020 due to the current Coronavirus situation.

Phantom Canyon NUC 11 would be powered by Intel's Tiger Lake-U 28W processors. The NUC's processors would be variants of the Core i7 or Core i5, but while they would be used in an integrated Xe GPU, there would also be a discrete graphics option. The details of the GPU are unknown, but it is mentioned that it is from a third-party company, with 6 or 8 GB of graphics memory.

Intel is likely to put its own discrete graphics based on the Xe architecture, which would allow far superior performance than that of an integrated GPU. The NUC 11 Extreme can be configured with up to 64GB of DDR4-3200 SODIMM memory. It has two M.2 slots (1x 22 × 80/110 and 1x 22 × 80) and a PCIe x4 Gen 3 NVMe port.

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The NUC 11's performance will also feature a 28W Tiger Lake-U CPU with Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 variant models, though these would come without discrete graphics.

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