Avalue Technology has slotted an Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake SoC into a passively cooled industrial box that claims up to 40 TOPS of combined AI throughput across its CPU, GPU, and NPU. The EPC-WCL is pitched at edge inference, machine vision, and local speech workloads, the kind of jobs that increasingly run on self-hosted boxes instead of round-tripping to a cloud API.

Wildcat Lake itself is a five- or six-core part with Intel Xe3 graphics inside a 15W TDP envelope, and the chassis pairs it with up to 48GB of DDR5-6400 through a single SO-DIMM slot. Storage runs through an M.2 Key-M 2280 slot on PCIe Gen4 x2, with a separate M.2 Key-B slot for a second SSD or an optional 4G LTE, 5G, or GNSS module. A third M.2 Key-E 2230 slot accepts a Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 card.

Three-display output is handled by HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.4a, and a USB Type-C port with DisplayPort Alt Mode. That same Type-C connector accepts 45W of Power Delivery, so a single cable can drive the system, a monitor, and data. Wired networking comes from two 2.5 Gbps Intel ports (I226LM and I226V), and the rest of the I/O includes one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, two front USB 2.0 ports, two BIOS-selectable RS232/422/485 COM ports on DB-9 connectors, TPM 2.0, and Intel iAMT for out-of-band management.

Avalue lists both Windows 11 and Linux as supported but offers no download bundle. In practice, Wildcat Lake's CPU side has been mainlined alongside the rest of Intel's Core Series 3 enablement, and Xe3 graphics support landed in the Intel Xe kernel driver beginning with Linux 6.17, with additional display enablement patches continuing into Linux 6.18. Mesa 25.3 merged the ANV and Iris driver support for Wildcat Lake, with back-ports available for the Mesa 25.1 and 25.2 stable branches. The NPU side of the 40 TOPS figure is equally covered at the SoC level: the IVPU kernel accelerator driver includes Wildcat Lake support in mainline, and Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 supplies the user-space components that frameworks need to schedule inference workloads to it. The Intel I226 NICs, the AX-class Wi-Fi 7 modules that fit the Key-E slot, and standard NVMe storage all work out of the box on current mainline kernels, which makes a Debian, Ubuntu LTS, or Proxmox install on this hardware a straightforward exercise rather than a driver scavenger hunt.

The chassis measures 177 x 126 x 57 mm (7.0 x 5.0 x 2.2 inches) and accepts a 12V to 24V DC input through a Phoenix connector, with a 120W adapter included. Operating range is -10°C to 60°C (14°F to 140°F) with 0.5 m/s airflow, and mounting options cover wall, DIN-rail, and VESA. Avalue has not published pricing and lists the EPC-WCL as Coming Soon, with quotes available through the product page and press release.