Intel Lunar Lake’s P-Core code name is Lion Cove, and the E-Core code name is Skymont

Lunar Lake is Intel’s product following Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, this year will witness the arrival of Meteor Lake. Thus, for consumers, Lunar Lake may still seem somewhat distant, but for developers, preparations must already commence. Intel’s plan is to have wafer starts and production readiness in place by 2024.

Lunar Lake will also embrace a modular design, with the processor divided into computing, SOC, I/O, GPU, and foundational modules. These can be paired with modules of different process nodes and stacked, then interconnected using EMIB technology and Foveros packaging techniques. Within this configuration, the GPU module will adopt the next-generation Xe2-LPG architecture found in Battlemage, reportedly accommodating up to 8 Xe cores and 64 Execution Units (EUs).

In regards to the CPU, Intel has introduced a new CPUID within their perfmon software. The open-source code for this software is already available on GitHub, wherein we can discern that Lunar Lake’s P-Core code name is Lion Cove, and the E-Core code name is Skymont. This nomenclature aligns with current naming conventions, with “Cove” denoting larger P-Cores, such as the “Redwood Cove” to be used in Meteor Lake, and “Mont” signifying smaller E-Cores, like the “Grace Mont” used in Raptor Lake.

It’s worth noting that these core code names were initially associated with Arrow Lake, a product designed to meet a variety of CPU needs ranging from entry-level to high-end. In contrast, Lunar Lake is explicitly targeted at low-power devices, which perhaps explains the shared core design between these two series.

Intel has indeed expressed the intention to mass-produce Lunar Lake in the latter half of 2024, but whether this series of processors will launch within the same year remains unknown. After all, a certain time lapse invariably occurs between product mass production and market introduction.