Intel's Nova Lake chips will all reportedly be called Core Ultra 4000, laptops included

Intel's next desktop and laptop processors, Nova Lake, will reportedly share one name: Core Ultra 4000. The claim comes from the leaker Jaykihn, and Intel has not commented.

Intel's current desktop chips, the Core Ultra 200S Plus series, use three-digit model numbers. Image: Intel

The current Core Ultra chips use three-digit model numbers, so the obvious next step would have been Core Ultra 400. A four-digit name would make the new parts easy to tell apart from the old ones on a shop shelf.

The leaker first split the names, then said every Nova Lake chip gets four digits

Jaykihn first said only the fastest laptop chips, the HX series, would get four-digit numbers. The H series and the suffix-less mobile chips would keep three. He then retracted that and said those laptop chips use the four-digit scheme too.

Asked whether that meant every model is Core Ultra 4000, he replied: "For Nova Lake, yes." So a desktop Core Ultra 9 and a thin-and-light laptop chip would share the same series number.

Intel's Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop processors. Image: Intel

Intel itself has only said Nova Lake must win back the high-end desktop

Intel has said little about Nova Lake in public. In a July 2025 note to staff, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan wrote that Intel "must drive continued progress on Nova Lake to close gaps in the high-end desktop space."

Intel has not confirmed any Nova Lake model names. Image: Intel

Intel's quarterly results on October 29 are the next chance for an official word

Intel has not announced model names, prices or a launch date for Nova Lake. It reports its third-quarter results on October 29, and executives may update the product roadmap on that call.

Naming is also the easiest thing for a chipmaker to change late in development.