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Does NUC stand for something? Is it an Intel sub-brand or a more general classification?
by drcongo 3y ago
Does NUC stand for something? Is it an Intel sub-brand or a more general classification?
- c-hendricks 3y agoThe Next Unit of Computing. Pretty sure it's just an intel-ism that caught on.
- gorkish 3y agoIt stands for "Next Unit of Computing"
- toast0 3y agoIntel coined NUC as "Next Unit of Computing" in 2012. I don't believe they claim a trademark on the term, but I've not seen any other company use it. There's plenty of other products with a similar footprint, it's about as small as you can shrink a board with a mainstream laptop chip with modular memory and storage, and a decent amount of ports.
- drcongo 3y agoThanks all.
- giobox 3y agoIt's Intel branding for their SBC efforts - "Single Board Computer", I'd argue. While officially it stood for "Next Unit of Computing", every Intel NUC was effectively an SBC more or less, from designs small enough to fit in an HDMI dongle to Mac Mini style units. The SBC architecture is what permits the form factors. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer