ASUS equips its NUC 14 Professional mini PC with AI capabilities

ASUS is now outfitting its NUC 14 Professional mini PC with a neural processing unit (NPU) able to reaching 48 trillion operations per second (TOPS). The brand new mannequin, the ASUS NUC Professional AI, can have as much as an Intel Core Extremely 9 288V processor. With a peak of only one.3 inches, this mini PC could be carried anyplace and gained’t get in your method. A lot of the options like ports and internals needs to be comparable in comparison with its predecessor.

To stop overheating, ASUS put in some superior thermal administration options constructed for the pc's tiny footprint. Different options embrace Safe Boot, built-in audio system and voice command-ready microphones. There’s additionally a fingerprint reader for additional safety, together with a trusted platform module (TPM). The latter is designed to safe the PC additional utilizing cryptography. Upgrading the ASUS NUC 14 Professional AI doesn’t require instruments, and the mini PC could be managed with ASUS Management Heart.

This mini PC could be handy, nevertheless it’s probably not going to run AAA video games at larger settings. Happily, ASUS does have some NUC PCs able to gaming.

As of now, there’s no launch date for the ASUS NUC 14 Professional AI, however its announcement is lower than a yr following the primary ASUS-built NUC that we saw at CES 2024.

Replace, Might 8, 2025, 12:40PM ET: Greater than six months after this story was initially revealed on September 4, 2024, ASUS reached out and requested that Engadget take away the reference to this product assembly EPEAT's Local weather+ power effectivity requirements. The corporate confirmed it was a mistake on its half; it has filed for and is within the technique of getting the certification nevertheless it hasn't been confirmed but.

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