The focus of the PN series in general, and the PN50 in particular, is more on small and medium-businesses rather than the home consumer base. While the PN30 was a low-end offering, the ASUS PN50 (which we are looking at today) makes a play for the high-end market by using the Renoir APUs in the Ryzen 4000 mobile series. This was followed up in Q3 2020 by the ASUS PN50, and more recently, the PN51. The ASUS PN30 (a fanless PC based on Carrizo-L) was introduced in early 2020 as AMD's sole representation in the PN series. The PN series represents the range of UCFF PCs from ASUS. While ASRock Industrial was one of the first to release a UCFF mini-PC based on the first-generation Ryzen embedded processors, multiple OEMs have lined up to utilize the second-generation AMD processors in their own high-performance mini-PC lineups.
AMD was largely absent in this market till the introduction of the Ryzen processors.
These PCs have usually relied on low-power processors with compelling performance per watt metrics. The trend was kickstarted by Intel's NUCs in the early 2010s. Ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) machines have been one of the major drivers in the resurgence of the PC market.
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