By way of example, Intel released its new Meteor Lake laptop chips in December 2023, only to follow them up in very short order with the Lunar Lake family in September 2024. Argua

Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake CPUs could boast a drastic performance boost from prior generations thanks to an exponential increase in core count. The most-powerful processor of the bunch will apparently boast 16 Performance cores and 32 Efficient cores, giving Team Blue a potentially monstrous contender.

Although Intel has yet to announce who will help produce the processors, TSMC already works with Intel to manufacture Arrow Lake chips.

Apart from the release date, there was no further information on Nova Lake, except that, according to the Intel manager, the architecture will be used “for the entire PC portfolio”, i.e., from light notebooks to large desktop PCs. Panther Lake is probably only intended for notebooks.