Intel has been making constant changes to its processor lineup in recent years, and it appears that the blue company is working on a new architecture for the future. Called Cobra Core, the architecture was discovered on the LinkedIn profile of an employee of the company, and should focus on more single-core performance and efficiency.
Few details about Cobra Core are known, but according to the Gamma0Burst miners who discovered the project, this architecture should take a good few years to be released. The main reason is that the technology is still under development and should mark a new step for the company's x86 chips.
In addition to Cobra, Intel is actively working on the Royal Core architecture, scheduled to launch between 2026 and 2027 with Nova Lake processors. The Nova generation is expected to be launched for laptops and desktops, marking the absolute end of hyper-threading technology in Intel products.
Intel processors are known for their good multitasking capabilities.Source: Intel
Arrow Lake will initiate changes
In fact, this movement will begin this year with the Arrow Lake models, which will possibly launch without hyper-threading. The Arrow Lake models are developed with the Lion Cove architecture, which is also present in the Lunar Lake models for portable and thin devices.
Only with Nova Lake will Intel introduce the Royal Core architecture. The company may then launch models codenamed Beast Lake, with an updated technology. The expectation is that the chips will continue in a modular format using tiles.
With the Royal and Cobra Cores, Intel seems to have a well-defined future, but it will still take a few years until we see processors with these concepts in practice.