Intel Serpent Lake — the very SoCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics and Cooper Shark cores

A fresh leak peels back Intel’s plan for a chip called Serpent Lake — insiders (notably Jaykihn) say the company is plotting something unusual: an NVIDIA graphics chiplet soldered into an Intel SoC. We’d heard about their cooperation before, but these snippets make the concept feel less hypothetical and more like a concrete direction.

The idea, reportedly, is to take on AMD’s Halo family (Strix Halo, etc.), which currently owns much of the high-end integrated-GPU space. Instead of leaning on its Arc/Xe design, Intel would license NVIDIA IP — meaning Serpent Lake could ship with native DLSS support and dedicated RT and tensor blocks on-die. Think SoC-level RTX, not a boxed GPU glued to a motherboard. Rumor has it the architecture targets Rubin-level performance or better and aims for a 2028 timeframe.

Another twist: insiders claim Intel might drop the energy-efficient cores for this line, reverting to a single core type (i.e., no P/E hybrid mix). If that’s accurate, it changes assumptions about power management and scheduling on these chips. Wild, right? Still, take this with the usual grain — leaks can be hopeful sketches as much as blueprints.