Since it bought the NUC design and manufacturing license from Intel, ASUS has been gearing up for a new launch and it unveiled these new devices at the CES 2024 show. The star of the show is definitely the ASUS ROG NUC, a special design NUC system that will be powered by up to Intel's flagship Meteor Lake-H Core Ultra 9 185H processor, a 16-core/22-thread 5.1GHz CPU with a 115W maximum turbo TDP. ASUS paired it up with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.
The second SKU will include the Core Ultra 7 155H processor with an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. The ASUS ROG NUC comes with up to 32GB of DDR5 memory in two SO-DIMM slots, three M.2 PCIe Gen4 x4 slots, Thunderbolt 4, six USB ports, Intel Killer WiFi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5G Ethernet, as well as HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. All of this is packed in a ROG-there 2.5L chassis.
In addition to the ROG NUC, ASUS also unveiled two new standard NUC devices, the NUC 14 Pro and NUC 14 Pro+, both equipped with Intel's 14th Gen CPUs. Based on a standard 4x4 NUC form factor for the NUC 14 Pro, and a slightly updated 5x4 form factor for the NUC 14 Pro+, these two will be equipped with up to Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU, up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM, two M.2 2280 PCIe4 x4 slots, and usual connectivity options like WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5Gb Ethernet.
The entire lineup should be coming to the market soon.