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Intel's new Nova Lake CPU is reportedly being made on TSMC N2 right now, pointing to a hybrid 18A node and late 2026 launch
By Hope Corrigan published
news "Sorry, no hints this time."

An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up
By Nick Evanson published
News And for gaming, it won't make a jot of difference. Low-latency cache is what we need.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs rumoured to take on AMD's X3D CPUs at last thanks to gaming-friendly cache memory tile
By Jeremy Laird published
News The devil will be in the ring-bus details.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPU rumoured to get up to 52 cores, over double the count of Arrow Lake across all segments
By Jeremy Laird published
News Mid-range Nova Lake has more cores than high-end Arrow Lake, natch.

Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
By Jeremy Laird published
News Is Intel finally on the up?

Newsflash: Intel's all-important 18A node is officially 'ready' but what exactly happened to the 'five nodes in four years' thing?
By Jeremy Laird published
News Ready for customers, but what about the PC?

It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel might give Arrow Lake a polish in the meantime, but that'll be it.

Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop
By Jeremy Laird published
News Intel's next-gen desktop CPU Nova Lake won't be pure 18A, it seems... but at least it'll have some 18A compute.
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