Intel's 28-Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC Leaks As Flagship Nova Lake CPU

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There's been a lot of speculation over the last few months on the matter of what exactly Intel was going to name its Nova Lake processors. Most people seemed satisfied to expect "Core Ultra 400 Series", which would make sense in light of its latest laptop CPUs. Instead, apparently, Intel is going with the Core Ultra 4000 series, at least on desktop. We heard about the Core Ultra 9 4950K before, but a new list from leaker LC Tech Leaks seems to corroborate that with a list of SKUs including six more models.

The list leaked by Laurents Choice was covered up in JPEG artifacts and ordered in a confusing way; you can see the original list by clicking the image above. However, the image directly embedded above is a cleaned-up version that has the same data, simply re-ordered in a more intuitive way. Starting from the top of...

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