Hulk
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Apparently the i7 sku gets 12 little cores, up from 8. They disable 1 of the e-core clusters rather than both of them.
The enigma that was Raptor Lake Refresh is beginning to take shape.
Better yields can result in higher clocks up and down the stack while upping the i7 to 3 E clusters could provide enough differentiation from 13 gen from Intel's point of view. Of course if pricing is right they may get away with it. For a while.