New "Micro Firewall" Mini PCs with Intel Core 3 N355 Twin Lake Chips
Mini PCs designed for firewalls and networking now feature Intel's Twin Lake Core 3 N355 chips, offering better performance. Explore features and pric
New mini PCs designed for use as firewalls, routers, and other networking appliances are now available with Intel's latest "Twin Lake" processors, including the more powerful Intel Core 3 N355. These low-power devices are designed for entry-level computing tasks. Twin Lake Processors: A Step Up in Performance While many earlier mini PCs of this type featured the quad-core Intel N150 processor, we're now seeing systems with up to an octa-core Intel Core 3 N355 chip with a 15W TDP. These "Twin Lake" processors are a modest update to the Alder Lake-N platform. They are essentially an Alder Lake processor with only Efficiency cores, rather than a mix of Performance and Efficiency cores, but with slightly higher clock speeds, which brings performance boosts. SJRG Mini PC: Features and Specifications One example of this trend is the "Firewall mini PC" from SJRG, available on Amazon . This fanless computer offers a choice of Intel N150 or Core 3 N355 chips…