During its most recent speech, Apple teases a new Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

 

Apple promised a future Mac Pro revamp during its March "Peek Performance" presentation, but the iMac Pro may be gone for good.

At its presentation on Tuesday, Apple announced a new Mac Studio gadget that houses its powerful M1 Ultra CPU in a smaller and more cheap form factor.

At the end of the speech, Apple senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus stated that with the release of the Mac Studio, just one product remains to be transitioned to Apple Silicon – the Mac Pro.

Apple now sells just one Mac with an Intel CPU, the Mac Pro. Ternus stated that Apple was working on a successor to that gadget, but said a public discussion about it would have to wait until "another day."

The terminology used by Apple here clearly implies that the Mac Pro upgrade will use some form of M-series CPU, rather than Intel chips, as some reports have claimed. Of course, Apple might sell both an Apple Silicon and an Intel Mac Pro, but the company's Tuesday suggestion strongly implies that the former is more plausible.

Apple now sells just one Mac with an Intel CPU, the Mac Pro. Ternus stated that Apple was working on a successor to that gadget, but said a public discussion about it would have to wait until "another day."

The terminology used by Apple here clearly implies that the Mac Pro upgrade will use some form of M-series CPU, rather than Intel chips, as some reports have claimed. Of course, Apple might sell both an Apple Silicon and an Intel Mac Pro, but the company's Tuesday suggestion strongly implies that the former is more plausible.

According to previous speculations, a Mac Pro CPU might have up to 40 processing cores and 128 graphics cores. While the M1 Ultra is Apple's most powerful CPU, it only has 20 processing cores and 64 graphics cores.

In other words, the Mac Pro will have a more powerful M-series processor than any of the company's previous Macs. Realistically, such a strong Mac would effectively eliminate the need to introduce a more powerful Intel-based Mac. A Silicon Mac Pro from Apple would also mark the end of the two-year switch to first-party CPUs.

What about the iMac Pro?

Apple's indication that there would only be one more Intel computer to make the switch to Apple Silicon leaves little room for the iMac Pro.

According to recent speculations, Apple is developing a 27-inch iMac replacement featuring an Apple Silicon processor. According to current sources, the gadget will most likely be a replacement for both the 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro, both of which are presently discontinued.

Ternus' assertion that there is just one more Mac in the Apple Silicon transition, however, does not rule out a 27-inch iMac upgrade. Apple presently does not sell any sort of iMac in that size factor, thus a bigger Apple Silicon-equipped iMac will occupy an unfilled position in Apple's range.