Intel prepares the Nova Lake Xeon E with up to 32 E-Cores or 16 P-Cores
Intel has yet to present its next processors for desktop computers, and also for high-performance laptops, the Intel Nova Lake and Nova Lake-HX. But this architecture will also give life to new processors for professionals and workstations, we are talking about the Intel Nova Lake Xeon E Serieswhich are known to arrive with configurations of up to 16 high-performance or 32 high-efficiency coreswithout a hybrid core configuration that mixes both in a single CPU.
Intel Nova Lake Xeon E will arrive with up to 32 E-Core cores
According to the well-known leaker Jaykhin, these Intel Xeon processors based on the Nova Lake architecture will arrive with configurations of up to 16 performance coresalthough they will also be available with 4, 6, 8 and 12 in addition to these 16. For high efficiency cores there will be a version with up to 32 E-Coresalthough it will also have others with 4, 8 and 16 of these cores. A total of 9 references to choose from for these processors intended for professionals.
As we have mentioned previously, the Intel Nova Lake Xeon E will not have hybrid cores that mix high performance and high efficiency, will not have the usual 4 ultra-low power cores that have been introduced into the consumer range.
Intel W980 chipset will offer up to 48 PCIe lanes
Accompanying these next processors will also come the Intel W980 chipsetspecially designed to meet the needs of professional environments. A chipset that will come with support for up to 48 PCI Express lanes12 of them being PCIe 5.0, and for ECC RAM memory widely used in industry.
The Intel Nova Lake-S will maintain the hybrid cores
In the same X/Twitter thread, Jaikhyn has also answered that users who want a hybrid core configuration for their Edge devices will have to resort to the Intel Nova Lake-S available for consumers. These will have high-performance, high-efficiency and ultra-low-power cores within the same CPU.
