Hades Canyon systems have come to replace Skull Canyon, marking the moment when NUC mini-PCs were built on processors that Intel did not independently. Kaby Lake-G chips are one of the rare occasions when two age-old competitors – AMD and Intel – have teamed up to bring a truly unique product to market. Using the Intel Kaby Lake microarchitecture based on 14nm process technology, these chips were equipped with AMD Vega graphics. This GPU is located on a separate die in close proximity to the CPU die.

Intel stopped shipping Kaby Lake-G processors last October. AMD stopped releasing drivers for their integrated Radeon RX Vega M graphics in June of this year. Therefore, the end of the release of systems based on these chips was only a matter of time. Intel has discontinued NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK NUC kits, as per Product Change Notification. Both devices are based on quad-core Kaby Lake-G series processors. The NUC8i7HNK uses the Core i7-8705G, while the NUC8i7HVK uses the more powerful Core i7-8809G.

Meanwhile, mini-PC data will not immediately disappear from store shelves. Intel leaves its customers the option to order these systems until November 27. The last deliveries of these mini-computers will be made by the company on January 29, 2021.