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Asus has announced him Asus NUC 14 Pro AIthe first Copilot Plus-capable AI mini PC that crams an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor into a form factor that looks like a black M4 Mac Mini. First presented at IFA in SeptemberAsus is providing a little more detail about the mini PC’s specs than it has done before, but it’s not saying when it will become available or how much it will cost.
The NUC 14 Pro AI comes in five CPU configurations, from the Core Ultra 5 226V processor with 16GB of integrated RAM to a Core Ultra 9 288V processor with 32GB of RAM. The company says it has up to 67 TOPS of GPU performance and 48 NPU TOPS, and that its M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 x 4 slot supports 256GB to 2TB NVMe SSD.
All that is packed into a PC that measures 130mm deep and wide and just 34mm tall; comparatively, the Mac Mini is 127mm deep and wide and 50mm tall. Here are some pictures from the Asus website:
The Asus NUC 14 Pro AI features a fingerprint sensor on top and a Copilot button on the front to speak voice commands to Microsoft’s AI assistant. Also on the front are two USB-A ports, a Thunderbolt 4 port, a headphone jack and a power button. On the back, you’ll find a 2.5Gbps ethernet jack, another Thunderbolt 4 port, two more USB-A ports, and an HDMI port. For connectivity, it has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
Asus has not yet said when the NUC 14 Pro AI will be available, nor how much it will cost.
