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Intel Royal Core Successor Rumored to be Codenamed Cobra Core

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Intel's future processor microarchitectures and their constituent CPU cores have hit the rumor-mill. The "Lion Cove" P-core is now current-gen, as products based on the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processor, which implements it, have been announced. "Lion Cove" will also be the main workhorse of "Arrow Lake," and Intel's Xeon 7 P-core server processors. The core ditches Hyper-Threading, but introduces a double-digit percent IPC gain over "Raptor Cove." The thunder of "Lion Cove" was stolen by the new "Skymont" E-core during the "Lunar Lake" technical presentations, as it offers nearly the same IPC as "Raptor Cove," at much lower power, and is held back by a lack of HTT and its inability to operate at high clock speeds that "Raptor Cove" can. We predict "Skymont" is shaking things up at Intel, and will have an impact on the way the company's future CPU cores are designed—to place greater emphasis on power and die-area to achieve IPC growth targets with each generation.

The successor to "Lion Cove" is codenamed "Royal Core." This would be the first time in over five years (since "Sunny Cove") that Intel's P-core codename doesn't use "Cove," signaling a departure from that naming scheme. The first iteration of "Royal Core" will power Intel's "Nova Lake" microarchitecture that succeeds "Lunar Lake." A slightly updated version of this core, codenamed "Royal Core 1.1," will power the "Beast Lake" microarchitecture, which likely falls in the lineage of "Arrow Lake," if not being a direct successor to it. An alleged Intel employee's work project description revealed "Cobra Core," a CPU core that succeeds "Royal Core," although the codename of its parent microarchitecture hasn't been revealed. Microarchitectures such as "Beast Lake," and its successor implementing "Cobra Core" are slated for much later into the decade, and we don't expect them to see the light of the day till at least 2026-27, if not later.



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Intel wants a core that can do everything. By everything, I mean even lighter tasks with minimal efficiency punishment. This means that at least for higher TDP designs, no more LP-E/E cores.
It might arrive with some new technology that's able to dynamically use certain parts of those cores.
No idea when, no idea further how or what.
 
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Queue the Cobra Kai and GI Joe jokes.
Dont take them lightly:
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The closest I’ll ever get to a cobra is at the zoo. I live in a cobra free zone.
They are quite common where I live, and have see them regularly while walking my dog on hill close to my house and like that Intel is moving away from lakes for a change.
 

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So where does this leave Panther Lake which is at least confirmed by the GCC compiler enablement? Its capabilities are the same as Arrow Lake-S and Lunar Lake, but with a new instruction - PREFETCHI.
That instruction is also present in Intel Granite Rapids (6th gen P-core Xeon), Intel Clearwater Forest (2nd gen E-core Xeon) and AMD Zen 5.
The rumor mill was that they will use Cougar Cove for P-cores and (improved) Skymont for E-cores in Panther Lake.
 

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Am I the only one who can't keep track of Intel codenames anymore? It's been Lake this and Cove that for what feels like a decade.

As long as those codenames hold water. There is no chance of them drying out.
 
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Man, has anyone else gotten confused with all That Core, This Core, Cancelled Core, Future Core renamed to Successor Core, Delayed Core?

I don't know what is what and what market it is for anymore when I read something about an Intel Core.
 
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Nova Lake is not Lunar Lake's replacement, where does this crap come from? Panther Lake the mobile only apu is Lunar Lake's direct replacement. Nova Lake replaces Arrow Lake S.

Didn't MLisD say Royal cores were canned.

This Royal core project will mean an end to and E cores being distinct, from what I've read.
 
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Man, has anyone else gotten confused with all That Core, This Core, Cancelled Core, Future Core renamed to Successor Core, Delayed Core?

I don't know what is what and what market it is for anymore when I read something about an Intel Core.

I heard about a Ai Core roadmap too.

No with all things aside; they need a stronger chip. Intel is losing it on both consumer and enterprise market.
 
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Man, has anyone else gotten confused with all That Core, This Core, Cancelled Core, Future Core renamed to Successor Core, Delayed Core?

I don't know what is what and what market it is for anymore when I read something about an Intel Core.
I honestly can't fathom why Intel hasn't used Hardcore yet. Hardcore never dies!

 
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Man, has anyone else gotten confused with all That Core, This Core, Cancelled Core, Future Core renamed to Successor Core, Delayed Core?

I don't know what is what and what market it is for anymore when I read something about an Intel Core.
Even Intel is confused at its own road-maps. :laugh:
 
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