Citing information obtained from retailers and OEMs, Moore’s Law Is Dead claims that Intel Panther Lake laptops cost between $1,400 and $2,400. The average price seems to be around $2,100. Additionally, a “major OEM” reportedly told MLID that Panther Lake laptops “for the best models” are close to AMD’s Strix Halo machines. So while Intel maintains that the Core Ultra 300 and AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo APUs are not competitors, the price leak will inevitably pit the blue team against the red team.
The same OEM source also claimed that high memory costs also contributed to Panther Lake pricing. Therefore, the source indicated that Lunar Lake Laptops “will be the way to go in 2026” for people who want to save money. Intel Lunar Lake APUs are comparable to Panther Lake APUs in terms of efficiency and single-core performance. Therefore, if you don’t need the graphics and multi-core performance offered by the Core Ultra X9/X7 APUs, laptops based on the Core Ultra 200 should be more than sufficient (buy one from amazon.com).
While MLID’s information regarding Panther Lake laptop pricing may disappoint some fans, Core Ultra 300 APUs were still expected to be expensive. The CPU tiles of Intel Panther Lake APUs are manufactured on the most advanced Intel 18A process node, which is expensive. Intel also uses the 3nm TSMC N3E node for the Arc B390 iGPU, which has become quite expensive following repeated price increases.
