At the end of 2017, Intel introduced GeminiLake, a new generation ultra-low-power platform. The family includes the two major series of Silver Pentium and Celeron, still Goldmont architecture.
In fact, Gemini Lake belongs to the Atom family, succeeding Apollo Lake. The main improvement is in addition to the process improvement, the frequency is slightly increased, more resources tend to be in the media decoding capability, properly HTPC artifacts.
The first six launches included 3 desktops and 3 notebook platforms, respectively, and the lowest thermal design power consumption was 6W.
According to the TPU report on March 7, ASUS released a new motherboard Prime J4005I-C based on the Gemini Lake platform, one miniITX small board.
This generation Gemini Lake is BGA1090 slot, so the motherboard is also Directly integrates the CPU (this is a Celeron J4005, dual-core 2.7GHz, 10W power consumption), but the processor is covered by heat aluminum wings, do not see the body.
The motherboard provides one M.2 NVMe PCIe 2.0 x2, two SATA 3 ports, four USB 3.0 ports, dual channel DDR4-2400 memory (single slot maximum 8GB), native HDMI 2.0 interface, 21: 9 4K resolution, Gigabit Ethernet port.
Onboard Wi-Fi can be extended with M.2 from another E-Key, as you can see, There is not a PCIe expansion slot.
Finally, Gemini Lake, including the J4405, supports 10bit 4K VP9 hardware solutions.
This zero-noise platform, small office, home HTPC proper artifact.
