Intel Nova Lake reportedly drops expected Core Ultra 400 name for H and U laptop chips as all five families adopt Core Ultra 4000
Intel’s next-generation processors will have a common naming convention for all their variants.
Intel to use Core Ultra 4000 name for all desktop and laptop processors, leaker confirms
Several reliable leaks and reports have confirmed that Intel will use the “Core Ultra 4000” naming convention for some of the upcoming Nova Lake processor families. We’ve seen the naming convention appear in popular versions of hardware monitoring tools. Additionally, we saw the first engineering samples appear on various platforms with the same naming convention.
AIDA64 is among the latest evidence confirming the use of Core Ultra 4000 for Nova Lake chips. Now, prominent leaker @jaykihn0 has confirmed that this naming convention will also be extended to other families and will not just include desktop variants. Until now, we expected Intel to use two naming conventions for Nova Lake.
The same leaker previously said that Intel will use the Core Ultra “4000” naming scheme for the high-performance Nova Lake-S and portable Nova Lake-HX processors. However, the mobile Nova Lake-H and slower variants without a suffix will carry the Core Ultra “400” naming scheme. In a recent tweet, when asked if Intel would use Core Ultra 4000 for all Nova Lake families, he responded in the affirmative.
This means that each range, including Nova Lake-S, Nova Lake-HX, Nova Lake-H, Nova Lake-U and Nova Lake-UL, will have the same naming convention. This should make it easier for consumers to identify the processor family, but keep in mind that it’s not official yet. Intel has yet to confirm the naming convention for the Nova Lake line, but leaks point to the use of the Core Ultra 4000 name.
Nova Lake is expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2027 on the new LGA 1954 platform. Some families and SKUs will launch later in the same year, including the 52-core flagship chip.
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