The Intel NUC 9 Ghost Canyon swaps CPUs via a Compute Element module

The Ghost Canyon isn’t a standard mini PC — it uses a removable Compute Element module that packages the CPU, PCH, and networking on a single card. You can swap between 9th Gen Core i5, i7, or i9 variants, up to the Core i9-9980HK. That modular approach makes it one of the most interesting NUCs Intel ever built.