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Intel 10th Gen (Comet Lake / Ice Lake) mini PCs

Desktop Comet Lake is still a Skylake-derived design, but Intel enabled Hyper-Threading on the Core i3, i5 and i7, so a 10th-gen Core i5 T-series chip runs 12 threads instead of 6. That matters for Proxmox hosts and container stacks. The media engine on Comet Lake is the same Gen 9.5 block as 7th through 9th gen. Ice Lake laptop-class chips use Gen11 graphics, which add hardware VP9 encode. Windows 11 is supported. Mobile Comet Lake U-series launched in August 2019 and desktop parts in April 2020, so business tiny PCs with 10th-gen chips date from 2020 onward. Check each model's RAM and storage layout rather than assuming it matches the 8th/9th-gen version.

Released
2019
In mini PCs
Comet Lake desktop chips add Hyper-Threading across the range (i3 4c/8t, i5 6c/12t, i7 8c/16t), 35 W T-series in tiny PCs; Ice Lake U-series brings Gen11 graphics.
Windows 11
On Microsoft's supported list. 10th-gen Core i3/i5/i7/i9 are on Microsoft's Windows 11 supported lists. TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot must be enabled in firmware.
Media engine
Quick Sync: H.264, HEVC 10-bit, VP9
Frigate OpenVINO
Supported on the Intel iGPU
Memory
DDR4, LPDDR4X

6 models with Intel 10th Gen (Comet Lake / Ice Lake)

Deciding between generations? See Windows 11 eligibility by CPU generation and Quick Sync transcoding by generation.

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