Intel's 'Serpent Lake' rumoured to be its first chip developed in collaboration with Nvidia
Meanwhile, Razer Lake, Hammer Lake and Titan Lake take the fight to AMD.
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Brace yourself for not only a veritable cavalcade of Intel-related leaks, rumours and codenames, but also for the usual caveats and qualifications concerning unconfirmed reports of future products. The news includes Intel's first joint-venture chip with Nvidia, plus several next-gen CPUs, reportedly with a big boost to per-core performance, plus a return to a unified CPU core architecture.
RedGamingtech describes Serpent Lake as an "APU monster" similar in remit to AMD's Strix Halo chip. It's said to sport Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPU technology built on TSMC N3P silicon, while CPU tech from Intel's upcoming Titan Lake generation, more on which in a moment. Oh, and it's all supported by LPDDR6 memory.
Exactly how accurate any of this is, well, that's impossible to say. Arguably, the only data point of real note is that "Serpent Lake" codename. Where things get complicated concerns earlier rumours that another Intel architecture, codenamed, Hammer Lake, was to be the first example of the Intel-Nvidia alliance.
However, that "leak" claimed Hammer Lake was an existing architecture slated to be modified to accept an Nvidia GPU in response to the newly announced deal. In reality, it should probably be no surprise that Intel's roadmap of future chips is somewhat in flux following that momentous deal with Nvidia.
Intel's single-thread performance quest begins with Panther Lake, which launches next month. (Image credit: Intel)
With that in mind, Red GamingTech has something of a précis of the next few Intel CPU generations, including Hammer Lake. Intel's next desktop CPU, officially, is Nova Lake, which should arrive toward the end of 2026.
After Nova Lake, according to these reports, is Razer Lake in 2027 or maybe 2028. That sticks with Intel's current Performance and Efficient core approach, but with a fairly hefty double-digit (ie at least 10%) IPC boost over Nova Lake thanks to new "Griffin Cove" Performance cores.
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