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Apple works on a new iMac Pro and aims for 2023 for its launch

The giant apple discontinued its iMac Pro family between March 2021 and March 2022, a movement that generated many doubts since, to this day, there has been no launch of any model that really replaces the two versions that passed “to a better life”. The only similar, though not equivalent, thing on the market today is the iMac, which is configured with an M1 chip.

The 24-inch and 27-inch iMac Pros that Apple discontinued were powered by Intel processors, meaning they were a holdover from the x86 stage of the Cupertino giant. With those credentials, it’s perfectly understandable that Apple had no qualms about discontinuing them even though they didn’t yet have a real replacement.

In recent months we have been seeing numerous reports that have not stopped pointing to the possible launch of a new iMac Pro that, in theory, would keep the two original versions, one 24-inch and the other 27-inch, and would be based on the SoC Apple M1Max. However, this information has been left in the lurch, and now a fairly reliable source, Marg Gurman, from Bloomberg, has commented that the new generation of the iMac Pro won’t arrive until 2023and which will use a SoC that has not even been announced yet.

The brain of the iMac Pro would be an Apple M3 SoC, a next-generation chip that, according to Gurman, will succeed the Apple M2 and hit the market sometime in 2023. We don’t have any official details yet, but logically it is conceivable that this new SoC should be made at TSMC’s 3nm nodea more advanced process than the current 5nm, which means it should offer notable improvements in performance and efficiency.

Apple may also take advantage of the jump to this new node to introduce a deep review at the architecture level, which would imply improvements at the IPC level, and perhaps also bet on raising the maximum number of cores and threads. The rest of the specifications of the new iMac Pro are a mystery, but since it is a high-end model aimed at the professional sector, we can expect a corresponding configuration, that is, a high amount of RAM and a high-performance SSD.

If all goes according to plan, before the iMac Pro will hit the market the new iMacs with Apple M2 SoC. We do not expect changes at the design or format level, so these will be a simple update of the 24-inch model that hit the market in 2021.

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