It's already known that Arrow Lake will use the Lion Cove architecture to power its P-cores. However, with its successor (Nova Lake), things will change and move on to a new core architecture named Royal Core 1.0, which is expected to be replaced by Royal Core 1.1 (Beast Lake).

Up until now, we didn't know what the successor to Royal Core would be, but an Intel employee's LinkedIn page shared by Gamma0Burst (via VideoCardz) revealed that it would be named Cobra Core. This Cobra Core would probably be used on an unnamed “Lake” CPU architecture.

Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake architecture is set to eliminate conventional hyper-threading and shift towards prioritising single-core performance. Following this trend, the Royal Cove x86 core architecture is expected to introduce Rentable Units, which should also lack hyper-threading in version 1.0.

However, subsequent versions, such as 1.1, may introduce a new approach to hyper-threading, potentially dividing P-cores into two smaller cores. The rumoured Beast Lake Next, featuring Royal Core 2.0, is speculated to support up to four threads per P-core, although concrete evidence for this claim is yet to surface.

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