Intel’s NUC Phantom Canyon, powered by next-generation Tiger Lake CPUs, has been filtered in Chiphell Forums (via Momomo_Us). Apparently, the NUC Phantom Canyon series consists of at least two variants, each supporting a selected set of processors.
Phantom Canyon NUCs with Intel Tiger Lake-U processors appear on the network
Apparently, Phantom Canyon NUCs are supplied with 28W Tiger Lake-U processors. Based on the specifications we see Intel Tiger Lake-U processors in a 28W package. The generation of Tiger Lake processors comes after the 10nm Ice Lake generation. Tiger Lake would use a more sophisticated 10nm+ process node and an improved architectural design.
While the Willow Cove cores used in the Tiger Lake CPUs would feature all the basic technologies of Sunny Cove-based processors, it would also have a redesigned cache, transistor optimizations, and improved security features to deliver much better performance and clocking than the 10nm processors.
The Tiger Lake processor generation would also support PCIe Gen 4, already offered on AMD’s Ryzen 3000 processors. The NUC Phantom Canyon would offer a PCIe Gen 4 x4 interface for SSDs based on Gen 4, and GPUs could be in the performance range of a GTX 1660 Ti and RTX 2060.
Intel would also add HDMI 2.0 and Dual DP 1.4 ports to its NUCs. Apart from that, we can expect Thunderbolt 3 (Type-C), 2x SODIMMs ports with support for up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory. The 64 GB memory would support speeds of 2,400 MHz, while 32 GB memory would provide greater compatibility with 2,666 MHz. There would also be two M.2 (Gen 4), 2.5G and Gigabit Ethernet LAN, WiFi-6 + Bluetooth 5.0, multiple USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, a custom steam chamber for cooling and custom RGB lighting.
The size of the NUC is significantly larger than the current ones but not as large as the quartz and ghost canyon variants. Intel has proposed an increase in input power of 100 W by 330 W, compared with 230 W for Hades Canyon, which had 100 W processors. We should definitely hear about the new NUCs around the CES 2020.