Intel Nova Lake Edge Leak Suggests 8 E-Cores With A Powerful 12-Core Xe3 GPU
Intel's Core Ultra Series 300 processors, better known by their code name "Panther Lake," already come in a variety of configurations thanks to their tiled design. That trend is likely only going to expand with its next-generation Nova Lake processors, and one of the configurations will apparently be quite unusual: a small chip with eight Arctic Wolf E-cores, no Coyote Cove P-cores, and a full 12 Xe-core GPU.
Why is this unusual? Well, CPUs with only E-cores aren't exactly novel; that's essentially what the original Intel Atom was, even if we weren't calling them "E-cores" back then. Intel's Twin Lake, currently shipping in chips like the Intel Processor N350, already has an eight-E-core configuration, although those are the much older Gracemont cores.
Indeed, Intel's E-core family has seen extremely rapid advancement in terms of single-core speed over the last few generations. From Gracemont to Crestmont, and then especially from Meteor...
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