These solutions will be the successors of Cougar Cove and Darkmont, which will be released on the Panther Lake line.
It is expected in the II half of the Nova Lake-S 2026 for desktop PCs and will offer 52 cores for the best models. The platform will receive the new LGA 1954 socket, which means updating the motherboards and possibly the support of the latest memory and entry and entry interfaces.
The mobile Nova Lake-HX will include nucleus up to 28 and the graphic module will withstand the architecture of the XE3.
In the server market, Intel will attract Diamond Rapids with the Panther Cove P core architecture and the number of cores up to 256. These CPUs will be half of the II of 2026 and compete with AMD EPYC at Zen 6.
There is no SMT in them, but Intel already recognized this error and plans to return the technology in the new generation – Coral Rapids.
Source: Ferra

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