Intel Reportedly Limits Nova Lake DS Samples, Rollout Starts in December

According to leaker Jaykihn, Intel is distributing its Nova Lake chips with the internal "DS" designation to a much smaller group of testers. These dual-compute-tile SKUs carry the BFC suffix and a larger bLLC, such as the 28-core Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC (8P + 16E + 4LPE). The restricted sampling means almost no public benchmarks ahead of launch.

• Nova Lake DS chips go to a restricted testing group
• BFC-suffix SKUs use two compute tiles and larger bLLC
• Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC: 28 cores — 8P, 16E, 4LPE
• No public benchmarks yet, rollout expected in December