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

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?

According to leaked specs, the flagship variant of the Intel's Nova Lake CPU family could offer double the power and efficiency.

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).

Compared to the Intel Arrow Lake-S CPUs, with the flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285K equipped with eight P-cores and 16 E-cores, Nova Lake could significantly upgrade Intel's arsenal. It also stands to compete with the upcoming AMD Zen 6, which is set to offer 32 cores in total, as noted by Wccftech.

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

Lunar Lake, crowned with the fastest integrated GPU per our testing, is a one-off design, as integrating memory directly into the CPU die has proven too costly for Intel to standardize. With no direct successor to Lunar Lake, Panther Lake follows Arrow Lake in less than one year, built using Intel's flagship 18A process technology.