Intel's been on a roll of late in all the wrong ways. Borked CPUs, failing fabs, haemorrhaging cash, run-ins with the President of the USA. The woes never end. Until next year, that is, and the launch of Nova Lake . That's right, peeps, when Intel's next-gen CPU architecture arrives at the end of 2026, Intel will ascend to a leadership position across the board on desktop.

To quote John Pitzer, Intel's Corporate Vice President of Corporate Planning & Investor Relations, precisely , "as Nova Lake comes out at the end of next year into 2027, I think we're going to have a leadership position across the board on desktop."

That is one heck of a bold claim, even for a chip that's rumoured to pack up to 52 cores . Of course, it will at least in part hinge on the quality of Intel's upcoming 18A

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