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Gigabyte Releases New Gemini Lake-Powered Motherboards

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GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has announced the release of new generation Gemini Lake based J/N series motherboards with the built-in latest Intel Pentium Silver/ Intel Celeron processors. With humidity protected glass fabric PCBs, long acting capacitors, anti-surge ICs, low resistance MOSFETS, and Ultra Durable components, GIGABYTE J/N series motherboards maximize product value by offering users the ability to customize performance settings.

GIGABYTE newest J/N series motherboards utilize a fanless cooling solution and the built-in Intel Gemini Lake processors make them perfect for compact, mainstream builds. The motherboards support HDMI 2.0 4K at 21:9 resolution for high definition video quality. Integrated PCIe Gen2 x2 M.2 slots supporting high speed NVMe SSD allows for fast data transfer speeds. The board's native Intel WIFI via the M.2 Connector along with an independently sold Intel CNVi wireless networking solution can make way for impressive wireless connectivity exceeding 1 gigabit per second, traditionally found in wired connections. Additionally, its support for M.2 SATA SSD, UDIMM DDR4 modules rated for 2400MHz, and noise free configurations makes it a perfect option for school, business, and home usage.


"Following the announcement of the newest Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron Processors, GIGABYTE developed a series of motherboards that truly reflects our excellent ability to combine the best of motherboard technology with Intel processor architecture," GIGABYTE stated.

GIGABYTE J/N Motherboards bring the best out of Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron Processors while offering customers plenty of flexibility for customization such as the ability to change the SoC to one suitable for their demands. For more details on these motherboards, please visit the GIGABYTE official website or your local GIGABYTE retailer.

For more information on GIGABYTE Intel CPU Onboard motherboards, please visit: http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Intel-CPU-Onboard

For more information on GIGABYTE motherboards, please visit: http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard

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If the performance is anywhere near Pentium Gold - it's definitely a worthy platform for office PCs (tried that on a laptop recently and it rocks).
At least on paper it looks like "this-time-it's-real-and-for-sure" improvement over the old and dusty BayTrail.
 

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Only for light office and light web broswer, I don't think every hardcore performance-required user want it.
 
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If the performance is anywhere near Pentium Gold - it's definitely a worthy platform for office PCs (tried that on a laptop recently and it rocks).
At least on paper it looks like "this-time-it's-real-and-for-sure" improvement over the old and dusty BayTrail.
It would make for a bangin HTPC build. Throw in 4 or 8GB of ram, a 2TB HDD, a BD-rom into a good ITX case and you'd be good to go.
 
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It would make for a bangin HTPC build. Throw in 4 or 8GB of ram, a 2TB HDD, a BD-rom into a good ITX case and you'd be good to go.

I'm also thinking it'd make a good, lightweight ubuntu server. You'd be able to run a few services and it'd be able to transcode at least a couple of H264 streams
 
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It seems that motherboard vendors forgot about AMD in this segment. The last thing they heard of is kabini... :(
 

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It seems that motherboard vendors forgot about AMD in this segment. The last thing they heard of is kabini... :(
I think you have it backwards, it's more like AMD gave up on this market segment.
 

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It seems that motherboard vendors forgot about AMD in this segment. The last thing they heard of is kabini... :(
Because the last low-power APU known to be in the wild was Kabini.
 
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Previously vendors had no problem taking ULV, mostly mobile-focused APUs (brazos and kabini) and making desktop/HTPC motherboards out of them.
Beema / carrizo-L / stoney ridge are the same segment.
 
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