Sometimes, bigger isn't always strictly better. More cores can equate to a higher power draw, and there's a fine balancing act when building a PC between getting parts that run nice, and ones that don't require a nuclear reactor in your case to work. Intel's upcoming Nova Lake chips seem to be rocking a lot of cores, but whether or not that will be worth it will depend on more than raw figures.
According to @meng59739449, a leaker on X, a shipping manifest included mention of two different Intel Nova Lake chips. The first is a 28-core chip with eight Performance cores, 16 Efficient cores, and four Low-Power E-cores. The second, perhaps the most interesting one, has a pretty chunky 52 cores, with 16 being Performance cores, 32 being Efficient cores, and 4 being Low-Power cores.
