One of the tiles will be a dummy
Intel Lunar Lake processors will be released towards the end of the year, but Intel is gradually revealing new details about them. For example, high-quality images of such CPUs have appeared, which show all the blocks on the crystals.
Unlike Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake consists of only two crystals. One combines the CPU and iGPU, and the other represents the I/O unit. There is also a third crystal, but this is actually a plug for creating a normal rectangular shape of the chip as a whole. True, it is unclear why Intel did not use this space to advantage.
There are also inferred markings indicating which blocks are placed where. Among other things, you can see the NPU block, which is quite large in size compared to the processor or graphics part.
An Everest insider even joked about this, substituting a processor unit in place of the NPU, hinting that Intel could release Lunar Lake with eight large and eight small cores if it abandoned the AI unit. Of course, this is only partly true. Technically, Intel could do this, but such a processor would consume much more power, and Lunar Lake was initially created with an emphasis on energy efficiency.