
ASRock has revealed the N100M and N100DC-ITX motherboards for small-form-factor (SFF) systems. The two new motherboards leverage Intel's low-powered Alder Lake-N processors, specifically, the N100.
Alder Lake-N, a product of the Intel 7 node (previously known as the 10nm SuperFin process), is essentially Alder Lake without the P-cores that cater to entry-level mobile devices. However, the power-efficient chips, whose TDPs vary between 6W and 12W, are also popular for embedded applications. The N100M and N100DC-ITX employ the N100. The quad-core processor rocks four E-cores with a 3.4 GHz boost clock and 6MB of L3 cache.