Mini PCs with two Ethernet jacks are catnip for the homelab crowd, and MSI's new Cubi NUC WCG packages that pairing alongside user-replaceable DDR5 memory and a USB4 port in a compact chassis built around Intel's Wildcat Lake silicon.
The system is on display at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where TechPowerUp got a closer look and reported the lineup scales up to the Intel Core 7 360. That chip carries two Performance cores, four Low-Power Efficiency cores, dual-core Intel graphics, and an NPU rated at 17 TOPS. Wildcat Lake is restricted to single-channel memory with a 64 GB ceiling, so expect one SODIMM slot rather than the pair found on higher-end NUCs.
The rear panel is the part that should interest anyone planning a self-hosted setup. Alongside the 2.5 GbE port sits a second gigabit Ethernet jack, joined by two HDMI outputs and a USB4 Type-C connector running at 40 Gbps with DisplayPort Alt Mode. Dual-NIC mini PCs are typically the fanless OPNsense and pfSense crowd's domain, so seeing that layout in a consumer Cubi opens the door to running a router, a Proxmox node, or a Tailscale exit node without resorting to USB Ethernet adapters.
For Linux users, the Intel iGPU and VAAPI video pipeline make these chips a comfortable target for Jellyfin or Plex hardware transcoding, and the integrated NPU is reachable through OpenVINO and the open-source intel-npu-acceleration-library, which is enough to run small quantized language models locally if you want to keep inference off the cloud.
MSI hasn't announced pricing or availability yet. The chassis will ship in black and white, slotting in below the Panther Lake-powered Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG that arrived earlier in 2026 for buyers who need more raw performance.
