By Omor Ibne Ehsan
Publication Date: 2026-10-08 13:30:00
Microsoft just built its most powerful laptop ever and left Intel out of it entirely, raising a question every PC investor should be asking about who controls the market going forward.
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For $2,599, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction) will now sell you a 15-inch laptop with up to a 20-core NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) Grace CPU and up to 128 GB of unified memory. On Oct 7, 2026, Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra. Its flagship model runs on an NVIDIA processor.
The Ultra adds a new top level. It replaces no Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) model, and Microsoft still sells Intel-based business Surface machines. Even so, Intel has no option inside Microsoft’s most powerful laptop. Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) also lost the top slot, even though Arm-based Windows laptops were supposed to be its territory.
