Intel is reportedly developing an entry-level processor family codenamed Moon Lake, according to a leak reported by TweakTown and attributed to hardware leaker Jaykihn.
The leaked design describes four Darkmont low-power efficiency (LP-E) cores with no conventional performance or standard efficiency cores.
It is built on Intel's 18A process node, the node that combines RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors with backside power delivery and whose first publicly confirmed client product is Panther Lake.
Moon Lake carries a reported base power rating of 6W, with some reports suggesting configurable operation up to 15W, positioning it below mainstream mobile chips and toward cheap laptops, mini-PCs and embedded systems.
The chip is expected to succeed Twin Lake and would share Wildcat Lake's BGA1516 package and dual-tile layout, pairing an 18A compute tile with a platform controller tile, though its four LP-E cores trail the eight E-cores found in higher-end Twin Lake parts like the N350 and N355.
That positions it alongside a parallel refresh. Wildcat Lake Refresh, reportedly doubling performance cores to a 4P+4LP-E, eight-core configuration with configurable power up to 35W and additional vPro options, targeting Intel's Core 5 and Core 7 segments as a Core Series 4 product.
Intel's low-power strategy traces back to Lunar Lake, launched in September 2024 as the power-efficient Core Ultra 200V platform, with subsequent designs increasingly adopting tile-based layouts and dedicated low-power sections.
Neither chip has been confirmed by Intel; leaks point to Moon Lake arriving in 2028, while Wildcat Lake Refresh was previously targeted for the first half of 2027, a date Jaykihn has said is subject to change.
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