Intel Xeon Processors to Be Available in Notebook This Fall

The Xeon E3-1500M v5 family will be powerful enough to have nearly the same power as the modern-day desktop PCs, and will be installed in laptops in future.

E3-1500M processors will be based on the Skylake architecture delivering high precision computing performance in a portable form factor. In addition to all these new technologies that will arrive for your laptop in a very short amount of time, Intel promised certifications for design and content-creation software that will run on notebooks. But would Apple ever Xeon chips in MacBook Pros? With desktop sales also tanking, it’s the logical move for Intel.

Now, Intel has announced a specific Xeon variant for notebooks – the first such chip to be built with battery-powered systems in mind.

It is conceivable that Intel arranges six-or eight-core versatile Skylake chips; however those chips have a tendency to have power and cooling prerequisites that are hard to meet even in a cumbersome portable workstation. No release date has been given, though it’s a safe bet that Intel will talk more about its mobile Xeon line at IDF15 in San Francisco next week.

The new laptops with E3-1500 M v5 family processors reportedly are not going to arrive until fall and Intel is expected to divulge more details about them in coming months. Once battery life is removed from the equation, you could potentially have a Mac Pro-tier all-in-one computer with a Retina display included.

That Apple has only used Xeon chips in Mac Pros so far would make iMac support a stretch, but Xeon chips intended for notebooks are unexplored territory at this point.

This is not only because the CPU is faster but also because they will feature the faster Thunderbolt 3 system, with palindromic USB Type-C ports that support the full 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 transfer speed.

Would you be compelled to buy a new class of MacBook Pros running Xeon chips designed for mobile?