I honestly just wish they’d give us P cores again…

I don’t work for or at Intel.

But I would be surprised if their future direction was “simply more of the same.”

At some point, I would expect further differentiation between cores, e.g. not just E and P cores, but more letters of the alphabet, with different specializations per core type.

Maybe Arc moves into the main processor as A and/or G cores. Maybe an L and/or I core variant derived from E for even lower power when idle. Maybe yet more cores dialed in for bursty network traffic or sustained numerical workloads or equal-path crypto engines or who knows what.

we went from quad core 7700K to 24 cores 13900K within 6 yrs.

Why wouldnt be possible to have 64 cores in far future?

I would like to see 16P cores with no E-cores.

no, I wish for all p cores like my i9 9900kf. a very fast CPU at 5200 and no overheating. Think if they made a all p core many of us would take a serious look.

do have to say that that many cores in a CPU would make it large, at least in the current production size. Wonder how many pins?

you can just process lasso on your current rig and see how well it works