Intel's latest news indicates that the Core Ultra 200V series processors, codenamed Lunar Lake, will utilize the Lion Cove architecture for P-Cores. This architecture will also be adopted in the upcoming Arrow Lake and Xeon 7 series processors. Although Intel is abandoning hyper-threading in its next-generation core architecture, there will still be a double-digit IPC improvement compared to the current Raptor Cove.

Intel is developing the Cobra Core architecture, which will be the next generation of CPU core architecture for its x86 processors. This codename first appeared in the personal data of an Intel employee, and its specific role in Intel's product line is not yet fully confirmed.

Reports suggest that the successor architecture to Lion Cove will be Royal Core, marking the first core architecture from Intel in the past five years since Sunny Cove that does not use the "Cove" name, potentially indicating a new naming convention. Royal Core will first be applied in future Nova Lake processors, while Beast Lake may use version 1.1 of Royal Core. As for Beast Lake Next, it will utilize version 2.0 of Royal Core.

There are indications that Royal Core version 1.1 and higher may introduce a new hyper-threading design, splitting the P-Core into two smaller cores, with version 2.0 supporting up to four threads per P-Core. According to the work schedule of the Intel employee, Cobra Core is set to succeed Royal Core, but it's unclear which processor will use it, with an expected official release no earlier than 2027.