Intel Nova & Wildcat Leaks
New leaks claim Intel’s Nova Lake‑S desktop platform will support DDR5‑8000, an LGA1954 socket, and 900‑series chipsets—pointing to a big desktop platform shift (igorslab.de). Mobile‑focused Wildcat Lake Core 300 leaks show six SKUs with up to 6 cores (2 P + 4 E), 15–35W TDPs, dual Xe3 GPU cores, and up to ~21 AI TOPS—Intel pushing AI even into budget mobile chips (wccftech.com).
Leaked documents list specific 900‑series chipset SKUs — Z990, Z970, W980, Q970 and B960 — and describe an expanded I/O budget with as many as 48 PCIe lanes on the new platform. (wccftech.com) Desktop CPU sheets circulating alongside the chipset material show a top‑end part with as many as 52 cores, a new "bLLC" large cache claiming up to ~288 MB, and a dual‑compute‑tile CPU layout in the same leak set. (wccftech.com) Roadmap snippets and board listings place supporting motherboards and broader platform availability in the second half of 2026, with some reporting motherboard arrivals pushed toward late 2026. (tomshardware.com) Mobile Wildcat Lake disclosures include explicit SKU names (for example Core 3 304 and Core 7 360) and per‑SKU performance bins showing the flagship turbo reaching about 4.8 GHz, with all models reported to share a common 6 MB L3 allocation and a single NPU tile. Company slides and positioning seen by outlets place Wildcat Lake inside Intel’s Core Series 3/edge and embedded lineup for Q2 2026, and some leak notes call out reduced enterprise feature sets on parts of the family (limited vPro coverage) aimed at budget and embedded customers. (videocardz.com) Primary public trace for the Wildcat details stems from the X user Jaykihn0 and aggregated coverage by specialist sites, while platform and chipset particulars are being reported and consolidated by hardware outlets and Igor’s Lab; none of the leaks have official Intel confirmation as of the reporting. (wccftech.com)
