Jaykihn has listed three Nova Lake configurations that Intel is reportedly considering at the moment: 52 cores (16P + 32E + 4LPE), 28 cores (8P + 16E + 4LPE), and 16 cores (4P + 8E + 4LPE). The initial claim portrays the 52-core SKU as a dual 8P+16E design with four LPE cores (likely on the SoC Tile).

That's the purported core configuration right now, which may change - and the other question with Nova Lake is will it be Intel's next-gen desktop range?

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 next-gen Nova Lake CPU is set to arrive in 2026, and a new leak shows that it may come with double the P-cores and E-cores over Arrow Lake.

Intel’s forthcoming “Nova Lake” desktop processors are gradually taking shape, with leaks suggesting they may feature a novel three-tier core design that could reach up to 52 total cores.

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.

Wildcat Lake has remained chiefly undercover, apart from a few design tools that surfaced at NBD. The same leaker claims it is designed for low-power and low-cost Chromebooks, mini-PCs, and embedded devices,