Chipzilla is expected to upgrade its Compute Stick and NUC solutions to Skylake processors starting October. ECS, Gigabyte, Asustek and ASRock are expected to launch related products.
Sales for the Compute Stick and NUC have been rising and it appears that Intel sees gold in the mini PC segment's potential. NUC s are seeing stable demand in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Intel is set to release solutions with its new Core m5/m3 processors codenamed Cedar City in the fourth quarter for the Compute Stick.
The new Compute Stick will feature 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage space and support Ultra HD. It will be based around the Core m3-6Y30 processor, which is set to release in October. It will also have Windows 10.