Intel’s NUC, quick for “Next Unit of Computing,” is a cool sequence of teeny-tiny PCs filled with the newest tech the corporate can supply. It’s additionally lifeless… but only “mostly dead.” Shortly after Intel introduced that it was completed making the NUC {hardware} line, Asus said that it was happy to take over, through a “non-exclusive license” to Intel’s designs. That settlement has come to fruition and Asus is now the official house on NUC gross sales.

So sayeth the company’s promotional tweet (noticed by AnandTech), which hyperlinks to a web page on the Asus on-line retailer. At the second, Asus is exhibiting seven completely different NUC packages throughout Intel’s eleventh, twelfth, and Thirteenth-generation designs, together with the NUC 12 Extreme, which has room for a discrete desktop GPU and the modular NUC Compute Element that powers it. It doesn’t appear like you may really purchase any of them on the time of writing, however placeholder pages point out that it’s best to be capable to in some unspecified time in the future. Corporate purchasers would possibly need to “Request A Quote,” as directed by the shop hyperlinks.

Asus is probably not the one firm that provides NUC designs sooner or later. The deal is non-exclusive, in accordance with the July announcement, so firms like Acer or Lenovo would possibly be capable to take up the reins in some unspecified time in the future. But with out Intel supplying the R&D for any future fashions, that appears unlikely, as many of the bigger gamers already supply their very own tiny PC designs for company prospects and customers who solely want low-power designs. To say nothing of the SFF lovers on the market, who’re completely satisfied to construct their very own crazy-powerful tiny desktops or purchase them from boutique producers like Falcon Northwest.

Even with Asus promoting the newest fashions, it seems to be like curtains for NUC previous the Thirteenth technology. The line spanned ten years and dozens of various fashions with some really fascinating hardware popping out of Intel’s design labs. Fortunately, there are many firms choosing up the slack like MinisForum and Beelink. If you’re looking for a teeny-tiny PC that may run Windows and different full desktop working methods, you gained’t be missing for alternative.