Intel Wildcat Lake Benchmarks Reveal Potential Rival To $599 MacBook Neo

It's still early, but the MacBook Neo may be the biggest threat to Windows laptops to date, particularly in the current climate that has seen certain PC component prices soar. A possible challenger could come in the form of Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake lineup, and in particular a 5-core model that has just been spotted on Geekbench.

Wildcat Lake is expected to power a new breed of budget laptops, including a pair of notebooks that MSI unveiled at CES, the Modern 14S and Modern 16S. Some early spec sheets reveal that both models will feature Intel Core 300 chips, otherwise known as Wildcat Lake, while the Modern 14S AI+ and Modern 16 AI+ will tap Intel Core Ultra 300 processors, otherwise known as Panther Lake.

Panther Lake is already here, with Intel having launched its latest generation mobile processors based on 18A at CES, and we're seeing ...