MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Pack Panther Lake Power In A Half-Liter Mini PC

MSI is joining the modern NUC race and showing off one of the first Intel Panther Lake mini PCs of its kind at CES 2026. Meet the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, the latest in MSI's Cubi NUC AI+ series, which you can outfit with up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H. That's is one of the highest-end Core Ultra Series 3 offerings, flaunting 16 cores and a 50 TOPS NPU that's well above the Windows Copilot+ requirements.

Given the lack of an "X" in the product names of the SoCs available, that means they're not using the full-fat Intel Arc/Arc Pro B390 iGPU, but the new entry-level Intel Graphics still utilize 4 Xe3-cores and hit 40 TOPS. MSI insists this allows for a total of up to 100 total TOPS with Intel's AI Boost, which is actually a bit above Intel's ...