Intel has set January as the month for the start of sales of its Panther Lake chips. The company is touting impressive statistics for the new CPU line, saying users can expect more than 50% better CPU and GPU performance — as well as more than 40% lower power usage, at a similar single-threaded performance — compared to Lunar Lake or Arrow Lake-H. It is common for hardware companies to cherry-pick benchmarks and claim significant performance improvement. With that in mind, Intel's performance uplift claim ...