{"id":689186,"date":"2026-05-23T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T09:23:10","slug":"leak-intel-hammer-lake-brings-thunder-hawk-unified-cores-to-desktop-also-revives-multithreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689186\/","title":{"rendered":"Leak: Intel Hammer Lake brings ‘Thunder Hawk’ unified cores to desktop, also revives multithreading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID) has detailed a handful of Intel’s major client CPU families through the end of the decade. The leaker claims that Intel is phasing out traditional hybrid layouts in favor of a unified-core strategy, starting with Titan Lake, scaling to the desktop with Hammer Lake, and adding back Hyper-Threading. Tucked inside the leak are also new details on Intel’s upcoming high-end mobile family featuring integrated RTX graphics tiles<\/a> from NVIDIA.<\/p>\n

Titan Lake<\/a> is not a direct successor to Razor Lake, but it is allegedly an intermediary and experimental platform exclusive to the mobile segment. Per MLID, Titan Lake will fill up the U\/P\/PX\/B\/BX designations. Among these, U ,P, and PX refer to mobile offerings with an Arc integrated GPU featuring up to 16 Xe3P cores, and a Titan Lake CPU die with up to 12 (8+4) Copper Shark unified<\/a> cores and 4 Arctic Wolf LPE cores.<\/p>\n

\"Leak:<\/p>\n

VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES<\/p>\n

It is believed that, much like AMD’s dense C-cores, Intel will feature Copper Shark P and Copper Shark E variants. The unified “E” cores are simply denser, area-optimized versions of the exact same underlying architecture. According to industry rumors, the engineering shift behind Intel’s unified core initiative aligns its design philosophy more closely with the E-core lineage than with the historical P-core team.<\/p>\n

Each designation has a slightly tweaked GPU and CPU configuration, though we’re unable to make out the finer details due to the low-quality image. The HUB tile reportedly packs 4 Low-Power-Efficient cores based on the Arctic Wolf architecture. Interestingly, there is mention of support for 192-bit LPDDR6 memory<\/a> alongside 128-bit DDR5 across all variants. These CPUs are expected to slot in the H6-Package, which is said to be compatible with future Hammer Lake mobile products.<\/p>\n

Variants with an NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplet<\/a> fall under both the Titan Lake-B\/BX and Serpent Lake designations and reportedly feature Memory on Package (MoP), as in Razor Lake-AX<\/a>. These models are rumored to use an older-generation Razor Lake CPU tile with Griffin Cove P-cores and Arctic Wolf\/Golden Eagle E-cores to ensure smoother integration. The flagship ‘BX’ variant, as far as can be seen, supports up to an 8P+16E+4LPE (28 hybrid cores) configuration, with an NVIDIA GPU classified as “Large”.<\/p>\n

\"Leak:<\/p>\n

Hammer Lake is expected to launch after Titan Lake as a key architectural transition to both mobile and desktop, featuring Intel’s second-generation unified Thunder Lake cores.<\/p>\n

According to MLID, Hammer Lake mainstream tiers like Core Ultra 3 and 5 will feature only P-Cores, dropping E-Cores from much of the mainstream desktop lineup. That being said, dense cores will reportedly continue to be used in laptops for area efficiency and in high-core-count chips that aim for maximum multi-threading performance. The biggest change, however, is the alleged return of SMT (Hyper-Threading) with Thunder Hawk, something that CEO Lip-Bu Tan reaffirmed last year.<\/p>\n

Moreover, leaked slides show that Hammer Lake will continue to use DDR5. Whether this means a hybrid memory controller like Alder Lake or a DDR5-only platform, we’re uncertain.<\/p>\n

While the leaker shared no additional details about Hammer Lake, it is reported that Nova Lake, Razor Lake, and Hammer Lake will all use the LGA 1954 desktop socket<\/a>. This three-generation compatibility may finally address consumer frustration with Intel’s historically short motherboard platform lifecycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID) has detailed a handful of Intel’s major client CPU families through the end…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-689186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}