Introduction to INTEL NUC 12 PRO

 What is Intel NUC?

NUC = Next Unit of Computing, it is small factor integrated cpu.

It comes with i7, i5 or i3 processor.

Model we are discussing here is  NUC12WSHI5

Following is NUC12 pro with i5 processor.

This is 12th Gen (Alder Lake) device comes with separate Performance core and Efficient core, known as P-core and E-core. In NUC12WSHI5 there are 4 P-core (with 8 thread) and 8 -E-core (with 8 thread) so you get system with 12 Cores and 16 Threads.  Nick name for NUC 12 is Wall Street Canyon.

NUC barebone comes with Intel Wi-fi 6E AX211 (Gig+) and Bluetooth Generation 5 but need RAM and Storage.

It support DDR4 max and has 2 slot, support max 64Gig memory

For storage we can use SATA or NVME PCIe-Gen 4 SSD 

We get power brick with system, but need to get power cable separately.