Intel is preparing two new lines of chips for very low power consumption. According to Liliputing, one is the Intel Moon Lake processor with four LPE (Low Power Efficiency) cores and 6 W draw. It could replace the existing Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake, i.e. the N100 and N150 chips.
The second newcomer is Wildcat Lake Refresh. According to the same source, it should bring more performance to cheap fifteen-watt chips. The same information was also reported by chipokia.com and engineered.at.
Intel Moon Lake and the question of succession
What is not clear, however, is who will actually succeed the N100 and N150. Liliputing calls Moon Lake a possible true successor. A different view was offered by a discussion on Hacker News. User adrian_b there stated that, according to speculation, no real successor to the N150 will emerge and that a stripped-down version of Panther Lake called Wildcat Lake will arrive instead, with two P-cores and four E-cores.
The same commenter estimated that computers with Wildcat Lake will be priced closer to 300 dollars than the 100 dollars that N100 or N150 builds cost. This is speculation by one discussion participant, not confirmed information.
A modular dock, a Linux mini-PC and a scale without a subscription
A campaign for DockFrame has launched on the Crowd Supply platform. It is a modular USB-C dock that uses Framework Laptop Expansion Cards instead of its own ports. According to Liliputing, pledge amounts range from 119 to 399 dollars.
Tuxedo Computers has introduced the Nano Pro Gen 15 mini-PC. Inside works the Intel Core X7 358H chip from the Panther Lake series with Arc B390 graphics and RAM of up to 128 GB. The computer ships with a preinstalled Linux distribution of your choice; Windows costs extra.
The third newcomer is YourOwnWeigh, an open-source tool by Tom Anthony. It allows syncing data from a Withings smart scale to third-party services, without the 99-dollar subscription that the company began requiring for a similar feature.