[KwartzLab] Intel Next Unit of Computing

[JR Nelson]

Hey guys, I thought you might find this interesting.

I spent last week at Intel's developer forum in SF, and stumbled across
this handy thing:

http://www.desktopreview.com/assets/12488.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ebr0AT2e_SU

It's not too much bigger than a Raspberry Pi (roughly 4x4 inches as opposed
to 3.5x2.2), but the CPU is wildly more powerful, since it'll be a Core i3
ULV. It'll ship in boxes with a board and case, CPU and thermal solution
(heatsink/fan), but little else - it's targeted at resellers, who'll
package it with some RAM, an mSATA SSD, and a mini PCI-e wireless card.

Granted, it'll cost ~$300 with a targeted MSRP of complete systems at
~$400, though Intel did say it'll probably be available for DIYers, too.

That's a lot of power in a tiny box, and the company said that with the
next-gen Haswell cores, they're going to re-engineer the platform to be
fanless and completely solid state. Despite the cost, I suspect there's a
lot one could do with something like this.

Happy Tuesday!

J.R.
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