AMD Zen 6 And Intel Nova Lake-S May Both Debut In 2027 For A Next-Gen CPU Showdown

This year's CES was pretty lean on exciting announcements, at least for enthusiats. Intel's Core Ultra 300 series, the chips codenamed Panther Lake, are pretty cool, but that was really about it. Next year is looking to be a lot more exciting, though. According to the latest rumors, Intel and AMD may be having a metaphorical knife fight at CES 2027, as both companies look likely to launch new desktop CPU families right around that time.

We've been expecting AMD's "Olympic Ridge" processors based on the Zen 6 architecture in Q1 of next year for a while now, but Intel's Nova Lake desktop CPUs were thought to be coming at the end of this year. Well, a new post from the generally well-regarded leaker 金猪升级包 (which literally translates to "Golden Pig Upgrade Pack") claims that Intel's Nova Lake S chips are in fact coming ...