Intel s Innovation Unleashed provided rather lean pickings for PC enthusiasts and gamers, but it appears to be that the firm provided a brief glance of the Ghost Canyon NUC successor on Sunday. PC World reports that the new Beast Canyon, also known as the 8L Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit, is far bulkier, than previous NUCs, and is in essence an SFF PC design.
Unlike previous Extreme NUC designs, the new Beast Canyon can fit full-sized graphics cards. The first high-performance NUC s relied on integrated graphics, and Intel even tapped AMD for its Vega GPU cores back in 2018 (Hades Canyon). Last year s Ghost Canyon NUC used the slot-in Intel Compute Element cards (featuring CPU, RAM, storage, IO), plus smaller graphics cards up to 8-inches long.