Intel’s ‘Unified Core’ Ambitions With Next-Gen CPUs Remain Intact as a New Job Posting Signals Further Progress on the Concept

Intel’s unified core strategy is something the world anticipates as the next pivot towards the P/E-core duopoly, and recent job postings indicate that the shift is being developed internally.

Intel Is Looking Towards Pivoting Away From Current P/E-Core Designs, But the Idea is In Early Stages

The idea of having one ‘big core’ has been discussed several times in the past, but it remains unclear how major CPU manufacturers will implement this approach in their next-gen lineups. However, Intel’s recent job posting reveals that the company has a dedicated “Unified Core” team working on the venture, further bolstering the credibility of the pivot from multiple microarchitectures to a unified platform. The job posting is apparently targeted towards pre-silicon engineering stages, which means that the unified core idea is still early for manufacturers.

For those unaware, a unified core is a shift from traditional P/E/LP-E core configurations to a single microarchitecture. The last time we talked about the unified core platform was back in July 2025, when an Intel engineer in China told us the company soon plans to explore the unified core route. It was disclosed back then that Arctic Wolf E-cores, the ones that we anticipate seeing with Nova Lake, would be the last generation, before we switch to one “big core”.

If you are curious about the advantage unified core architecture offers over the current approach, well, the primary benefit lies in maximizing Performance Per Area (PPA), given that, with current microarchitectures, scaling laws limit the number of cores manufacturers can fit onto a chip. And, interestingly, SoC manufacturers have already started to explore this approach, with one example being MediaTek with their Dimensity 9300 chip, which offers a revolutionary “All Big Core” CPU design. You could call AMD’s Zen5/Zen5c arrangement a similar approach, but it isn’t entirely true to that.

In terms of when you could expect one “Big Core” within Intel’s CPU lineup, speculation says that Titan Lake will pivot away from the current design, which comes after Razer Lake, the successor to Nova Lake. We cannot define a launch timeline for Titan Lake right now, but a good guess would likely be 2028-2029, or even 2030.

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