Intel Nova Lake is here. This is what the first Mini PC looks like

Although an event Embedded World 2026 doesn’t attract as much attention as CES in the United States or Computex in Taiwan, that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of interesting products there. A great proof of this is a small computer from a Taiwanese company ECSwhich was pre-premiere equipped with a processor Intel Core Ultra 400.

As noticed by the German editorial office of Computer Base, the upcoming Mini PC from the series ECS Liva P300 will be equipped with systems Intel Nova Lake. This is intriguing because the official premiere of these CPUs is planned only at the end of 2026, with wide availability in early 2027.

The mentioned computer is to be based on a motherboard with a mid-range chipset Intel B960 and have dimensions of 218 x 211 x 69 mm. It will offer module support DDR5 SO-DIMM RAM about performance up to 8000 MT/s and two M.2 2280 PCIe 5.0 x4 connectors for semiconductor media. The rest of the specifications are pretty standard.

Of course, these are not many details – ECS did not mention the maximum number of cores or clock speeds, although there are rumors that they are The flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 will offer 52 cores. Nevertheless, it is clearly visible from the size and type of the Mini PC case these will be rather cold systems. The power requirement does not seem excessive either, because the power supply is only 120 W.

What’s more, the Blues have apparently already delivered test copies to partners, so the premiere does not seem to be in danger. However, people planning to build a desktop computer must remember two things – The Intel Arrow Lake Refresh series will be shown firstand additionally Nova Lake will require a new platform with a socket LGA 1954.