Intel is expected to introduce two series of processor chips, Intel Panther Lake and Nova Lake for laptops and desktop computers around the third quarter of this year. These processor chips will be built using Intel's own 18A process, after two generations of their processor chips were built using TSMC's 3nm N3B process.
Recently, some details about the Intel Nova Lake-S processor chip (Intel Core Ultra 300), their desktop-class processor chip series have been leaked to the web arena. The first is support for faster DDR5 memory, which is DDR5-8000 by default. In comparison, the Intel Arrow Lake chip series (Intel Core Ultra 200) supports DDR5-6400 memory by default.
In the meantime, it is also said that this processor chip will come with 32 PCIe 5.0 lanes. In comparison again, the Intel Arrow Lake processor series comes with 20 PCIe 5.0 lanes. In addition to that, the Intel Nova Lake chip is also said to have 16 lanes for PCIe 4.0 connections.
Another important piece of information is that it is expected that the Intel Nova Lake-S series of chips will come with a new motherboard socket which means that it will not support the existing Intel Z890/B860/H810 motherboards.
This is because the most powerful Intel Nova Lake-S processor is likely to come with 52 physical cores consisting of 16 Performance cores, 32 Efficient cores, and four Low Power cores, which are new cores introduced in Intel's desktop processor series.
In the list of chip models shown, Intel will introduce seven Nova Lake-S models when these chips are announced.
Intel seems to be actively marketing the capabilities of their upcoming processing chips and has shared some additional details about them recently. This seems to have caused these details to start leaking onto the web arena.