Takes aim at portable workstations. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/08/10/intel-mobile-xeon/1
This seems weird to me. When I think xeons, I think continuous up time and continuous hammering of cores. The up time then making ECC RAM a bit more of a requirement. Probably most importantly they run in mission critical servers. None of this is what I think of when I think of mobile work stations, sure you may hammer a mobile workstation on ram, disk and cores and even GPU, but the up time and mission critical nature doesn't seem to fit in with laptops. It has a whiff of profiteering by selling xeons to people who are unlikely to actually need one.
It's all to do with the design of the pre-fetchers. Xeons are designed for certain workloads (predictable data) so they're more efficient when handling tasks you'd use a workstation for.
Could be worse, someone might be selling mobile servers with 12-core Xeon E5-2697v2. Oh wait, nevermind : http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure(1,234,0)ec
