Intel Apollo Lake NUC Specifications Published To Reveal 10 Watt CPU

The Intel Apollo Lake NUC series appears to be really close to launching as Intel has published official product pages for the NUC6CAYH and a NUC6CAYS models. These are going to be low-cost NUC mini-PCs that are aimed any entry-level tasks. The Intel NUC Kit NUC6CAYH comes without memory and the operating system whereas the Intel NUC Kit NUC6CAYS comes with a 2GB of DDR3L SO-DIMM, 32GB of eMMC storage and Windows 10 Home OS pre-installed. Both are powered by an Intel Celeron J3455 quad-core processor with Intel HD Graphics 500. This quad-core processor has a 1.5 GHz base clock and a burst clock frequency of 2.3 GHz.

When it comes to video outputs you have a standard full sized HDMI 2.0 header and one VGA header. The system has four USB ports and two USB 2.0 ports available on a header. Storage needs are covered by one SATA III (6Gb/s) port and one full-sized SDXC slot (or 32GB eMMC on the NUC6CAYS only). Two DDR3L SO-DIMM memory slots are available inside and you can stuff up to 8GB of 1866MHz DDR3L SO-DIMM memory in this system. There is one M.2 2230 Type-E module slots in the system that is run off the USB 2.0 interface, but is occupied by an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 module. Intel went with a Realtek 8111HN Gigabit Ethernet controller for the LAN.

Based on previous pricing we are expecting the bare bones Apollo Lake NUC models to be around $170 and that they will be at least 10% faster than the Intel NUC NUC5PPYH that has an Intel Pentium Processor N3700 (6W, 1.6GHz Base, 2.4GHz Burst, Quad-Core).

Here is a block diagram of the Intel Celeron J3455 processor for those that would like to know more about what it can do.