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Rumour suggests Intel is cooking up a 12 Xe desktop Nova Lake CPU
By Jess Kinghorn Published
News 'Decent discrete graphics? In my desktop processor?'

Intel's mega-core Nova Lake desktop processors look all but confirmed to have sustained full boost power limits at least 220 W higher than Arrow Lake
By Nick Evanson Published
News There's no other reason why a Z990 motherboard would have three CPU power connectors, after all.

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one
By Nick Evanson Published
Computex 2026 With a thermal target of 400 W in its sights, this cooler might just be planned for handling Intel's mega-core Nova Lake

A rumoured Intel Nova Lake mobile chip that's 100% E-cores with a beefy iGPU would be great news for handhelds, if it wasn't destined for edge computing only
By Nick Evanson Published
News But that might not stop some companies from experimenting with it.

Fresh Intel Nova Lake leak fills out the details on the range of Core Ultra 400-series CPUs we can expect to see later this year
By Nick Evanson Published
News Just remember that 44 and 52-core monsters are unlikely to be marketed at PC gamers.

Intel's new Nova Lake CPU claimed to have superior IPC performance to AMD's next-gen Zen 6 as rumour mill goes into overdrive with talk of higher core counts and an APU with a massive iGPU
By Jeremy Laird Published
News IPC gains, more cores, a Strix Halo killer and more...

Intel VP says future sockets should last longer and support more CPU generations
By Jacob Fox Last updated
News This could make Nova Lake a platform really worth investing in.

More details of an extra big Intel Nova Lake 'bLLC' CPU die with added cache and designed to take on AMD's X3D chips emerge
By Jeremy Laird Published
News The 'bLLC' CPU die is allegedly 36% bigger than the regular high-performance die.
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