Bad luck for Intel, some of its exchanges with industrial partners were obviously snatched by VideoCardz. The specialized site tells us all about its findings in an article published this weekend. We discover some of the most important specifications of the new range of Nova Lake-S desktop processors, expected on the market at the end of the year… unless there is a change in the calendar.
First of all, the information unearthed by VideoCardz suggests that these Nova Lake-S chips will indeed be marketed under the name Core Ultra 400 series, as had already been anticipated. The documents obtained by the site also mention the presence of high-performance cores (P-cores) Coyote Cove, coupled with high-efficiency cores (E-cores) Arctic Wolf on these new CPUs. There would also be an Intel NPU 6 neural processing unit, as well as support for DDR5-8000.
Good news also emerges from this first information: Intel would have every intention of retaining, at least part of, the current ecosystem of cooling systems for its next generation of CPUs. The idea of a socket being used for longer (a small revolution at Intel) therefore seems to be slowly confirmed, even if we still lack details on this subject.
5 different types of chips for the Nova Lake range?
Still among the new features linked to Nova Lake, Intel would be banking on support for integrated Wi-Fi 7, low-consumption audio, detection via Wi-Fi, and ECC error correction. Management of the new CUDIMM and CSODIMM RAM modules would also be planned.
These new chips could also manage up to 4 screens, support a total of 8 SSDs in PCIe Gen 5 and PCIe Gen 4, sport up to two channels for Thunderbolt 5 connections and, above all, be coupled to dedicated graphics cards via a PCIe 5.0 x16 connector. In total, 24 PCIe Gen 5 lines would also be relevant.
Even more interesting, for its 13 SKUs (at least that’s the number listed for the moment), the Nova Lake-S range would rely on a total of 5 different packages ranging from 6 to 52 cores to equip the Core Ultra 3 (6 CPU cores), Ultra 5 (8 to 22 cores), Ultra 7 (16 to 24 cores) and Ultra 9 (22 to 28 cores).
References with up to 28 cores would mainly rely on a single-die structure, while the best equipped chips, equipped with 28, or even 44 or 58 cores (on the very high end, the nomenclature of which we do not know) would adopt a dual-die type architecture.
On the graphics level, these different chips would be satisfied for the most part with two 65 and 125 W depending on the case, the chips with 44 and 52 cores would, on the other hand, unsurprisingly, be close to 175 W.
