9.25.2016

First Apollo Lake motherboard




It's finally here, and against all odds it's not a mini-ITX board. The J3455M-E from ASUS is a mATX motherboard featuring the mid-range Celeron J3455, a quad-core Apollo Lake wonder. With a 10W TDP and 12 Skylake-derived execution units, the new chip will offer substantial performance improvements over Braswell.

"This motherboard features an integrated Intel Celeron® Quad-Core Processor J3455 and Intel HD Graphics. This revolutionary 14nm ultra low voltage SoC (System On a Chip) combines superb processing power and advanced HD graphics support in one small, energy efficient design. Despite minimal power requirements, it still has the processing power to display the latest DirectX® 12 HD graphics. It features support for 4K/UHD (ultra-high-definition) resolutions of up to 3840 x 2160, and also has integrated USB 3.0 support."

✓ Celeron J3455 (4 cores @ 2.30GHz)
✓ 2 x DDR3 1866/1600/1333 MHz U-DIMM slots
✓ 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x1 mode)
✓ 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
✓ 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 ports
✓ 2 x USB 2.0 ports
✓ 1 x HDMI
✓ 1 x VGA
✓ 1 x Parallel port
✓ 1 x Gigabit Ethernet (Realtek)

Source: ASUS