Intel's new phantom canyon nuc leaked by cpu tiger lake

Intel's NUC Phantom Canyon, which would be powered by next-generation Tiger Lake CPUs, has been leaked at Chiphell Forums (via Momomo_Us). From the looks of it, the NUC Phantom Canyon series would consist of at least two variants, each of which would support a select line of processors.

Phantom Canyon NUCs with Intel Tiger Lake-U processors appear on the network

From the looks of it, the Phantom Canyon NUCs come with 28W Tiger Lake-U processors. Starting with the specs, we are looking at Intel Tiger Lake-U processors in a 28W package. The Tiger Lake processor generation comes after the 10nm Ice Lake generation. Tiger Lake would use a more advanced 10nm + process node and improved architecture design.

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While the Willow Cove cores used in the Tiger Lake CPUs would have all the underlying technologies of the Sunny Cove- based processors, it would also have a cache redesign, transistor optimizations, and enhanced security features to deliver much better performance and clocks. better than 10nm processors.

The Tiger Lake generation of processors would also offer support for PCIe Gen 4, something that is already being offered on AMD's Ryzen 3000 processors. Phantom Canyon NUCs would offer a Gen 4 x4 PCIe interface for Gen 4-based SSDs. On top of that, GPUs could be in the performance range of a GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060.

Intel would also add HDMI 2.0 and dual DP 1.4 ports to its NUCs. Other than that, we can expect Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C) ports, 2x SODIMMs with support for up to 64GB of DDR4 memory. The 64 GB memory would be compatible with speeds of 2, 400 MHz, while 32 GB of memory would allow greater compatibility with 2, 666 MHz. There would also be dual M.2 (Gen 4), 2.5G and Gigabit Ethernet LAN, WiFi-6 + slot. Bluetooth 5.0, multiple USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, a custom vapor chamber for customizable RGB lighting and cooling.

The size of the NUC is considerably larger than the current ones, but not as large as the Quartz and Ghost Canyon variants. Intel has suggested a 100W increase in 330W input power, compared to 230W in Hades Canyon, which had 100W processors. We should definitely hear something about the new NUCs around CES 2020.