Overview

• Leaks suggest that the Nova Lake-S flagship will pack 52 cores and threads alongside up to 288 MB of on-die big last-level cache, arranged across a five-tile chiplet configuration.
• Reports indicate the desktop lineup will leverage TSMC N2P process nodes for compute tiles and Intel 18A for entry variants, fitting into a new LGA 1954 socket with DDR5-8000 support and up to 36 PCIe Gen 5 lanes.
• The architecture reportedly combines Coyote Cove performance cores, Arctic Wolf efficiency cores and a Celestial Xe iGPU tile with dedicated bLLC dies to broaden scalability across performance tiers.
• Early performance documents cited by leakers project 16–20% single-thread and 12–23% multi-thread IPC uplifts over Arrow Lake, with the flagship model potentially achieving up to an 80% multi-thread gain and 30–45% gaming improvements.
• On the mobile front, leaks point to a Nova Lake-HX SKU with 8 P-cores, 16 E-cores, 4 low-power E-cores and a 4-core Xe GPU for a total of 28 cores, while H and U series offerings scale down to 16 and 6 cores respectively.