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Intel "Wildcat Lake" Powers Zotac's New Fanless ZBOX Mini PCs

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Zotac has updated its webstore with the listing of three new ZBOX mini PCs based on Intel's "Wildcat Lake" platform. According to FanlessTech, who first spotted these mini PCs, this marks one of the first instances of passively-cooled mini PCs using Intel "Wildcat Lake" SoCs. The three models are the CI431 nano, CI451 nano, and CI471 nano, all sharing a passively cooled chassis measuring 204 × 129 × 68 mm with a volume of 1.79 liters. The entry-level CI431 nano features a Core 3 304 processor with 1 P-Core and 4 low-power E-Cores (five cores and five threads) and boost speeds reaching 4.3 GHz. The CI451 nano is equipped with a Core 5 320, while the CI471 nano has a Core 7 350; both feature 2 P-Cores and 4 low-power E-Cores (six cores and six threads) with maximum clock speeds of 4.6 GHz and 4.8 GHz, respectively. Intel specifies 6 MB of Smart Cache, 15 W base power, and 35 W maximum turbo power for all three processors, which are manufactured using its 18A process. The Core 3 has one Xe-core running at up to 2.3 GHz, while the Core 5 and Core 7 have two Xe-cores running at up to 2.5 GHz and 2.6 GHz, respectively; their integrated NPUs deliver up to 15, 16, and 17 TOPS, respectively. Each system supports up to 64 GB of DDR5-6400 memory through one SO-DIMM slot, along with an M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD.