Intel's CPU roadmap for the next few years is said to include its Nova Lake CPUs, Arrow Lake Refresh, and Panther Lake chips. The Nova Lake chips may bring more than double the core count, if the latest rumors are to be believed. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Rumor-Intel-Nova-Lake-desktop-CPUs-will-have-up-to-52-cores-more-than-previously-expected.958155.0.html
Sure, just like Arrow Lake has 40 cores, oh wait that didn't happen.
And what exactly is 52 cores needed for for desktop. These aren't HEDT cpu's like Threadripper or Xeon.
Ordinary desktop CPUs are currently limited to 16 P-cores in the €800 class. 32 P-cores (with 0 E-cores) could be used, e.g., for 4 to 8 fast GPUs on a workstation desktop mainboard for number crunching or AI if bandwidth is not the bottleneck so that not as many lanes as on Threadripper are needed. I guess, however, that we need to await TSMC ca. 2nm for that so that the CPU does not need ~1/2kW.
Well considering AMD if going to 12 core CCDs and the top end Zen 6 will have 24 cores.
The hyperthreading performance should similar to Zen 5 and these and full Zen 6 cores. No E-cores. Intel gets crushed again.