While there are some rumours that Nova Lake will be built on Intel's future 14A node, that is rather speculative, what with Intel yet to prove that 18A is working well. Moreover,

It can’t come soon enough Intel’s coming Nova Lake has been spotted in the wild in a shipping manifest seen by X86 is dead&back. According to Tom’s Hardware, Intel's Nova Lake chips are currently undergoing validation.

Intel's next-generation Nova Lake CPUs spotted in new shipping manifests, this is the next-gen mainstream consumer CPU platform from Intel.

Thanks to a leaked shipping manifest, it looks like Intel may be sending early models of its upcoming Nova Lake CPUs to a select few. The notes on the shipping label suggest that the CPU in question was sent free of charge for research purposes,

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Shipping records indicate that Intel's Nova Lake chips are currently undergoing validation (via x86deadandback at NBD).