Discussion Intel Nova Lake in H2-2026: Discussion Threads

[lemans24]

Here is all what we know about Nova Lake in terms of Improvements

• IO tile is Intel 3
• SoC is 18A with 4LPE Arctic Wolf cores and IMC
• compute is N2(8+16)/18AP depending on SKU
• GPU is 18AP/Intel 3(not totally sure about this maybe based on XE3/XE3P)
• Xe3 Display Engines and Xe4 Media engine with professional codec support
• minimum 70 TOPS Die waste Unit
• Panther Cove with 4MB Shared L2 for P cores
• Arctic Wolf E Cores(likely 20% IPC Improvements over Darkmont according to Raichu).
• AVX 10(aka AVX -512 Support)
• bumped up core counts for Ultra 5 will beat Ultra 9 285K easily in both ST and MT by a decent margin
• big Last Level Cache SKU with 144MB L3 cache for a single 8+16 tiles

anything else i miss?

will there be an I/O tile at all ?? thought it would be integrated into Soc since it is 18A

 

[511]

will there be an I/O tile at all ?? thought it would be integrated into Soc since it is 18A

IO is still different they are retaining the design
IO+SoC(18A)+Compute+iGPU

 

[OneEng2]

Their margin pressure is due to TSMC as well plus their Fabs utilization dropping due to wafers at external.

That is certainly part of the margin issue. I believe that Intel has been subsidizing their low margin business with their high margin business for quite some time. Now, they are in a position where they are getting killed in many of their traditional high margin products.

In addition to this, Intel have embarked on a mission to compete head to head with TSMC for the cutting edge node crown........ wow. Good luck to them.

This is a prohibitively expensive venture to try to amortize across a fraction of the unit sales that TSMC has.

It's a near "perfect storm" for Intel.

 

[LightningZ71]

Cache is king: dual bLLC Nova lake rumors

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-dual-x3d-and-intel-nova-lake-dual-bllc-leaks-surface-almost-simultaneously

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