Despite not being expected to appear until 2026, rumours and leaks about Intel's next generation of desktop CPUs continue to come thick and fast. The latest snippet claims that Nova Lake will have "leadership gaming performance" coming from more than 10% better single-threaded (ST) and 60% higher multi-threaded (MT) performance gains.
However, it's not a particularly comprehensive leak, just a snapshot of what looks like an internal Intel document, posted by X user Game.Keeps.Loading (via 3DCenter). First of all, it doesn't explicitly state that it's about Nova Lake, the successor to Arrow Lake, but the fact that "New Low-Power Island" is a feature pretty much points to it being about the next generation of desktop CPUs. This is just a cluster of low-power E-cores, used for background tasks, that first appeared in Meteor Lake but not in any desktop chip so far.
