In the last WWDC we learned about the extraordinary features of the iMac Pro that we will know in the coming months: 18-core processors, high-end graphics card, memory up to 4 Tb and up to 128 Gb of RAM. Therefore, so far we know what this super mac, but the components that it will carry are largely unknown to us. Without going any further, every Mac that comes out on the market has a faster SSD memory. With regard to the processors, everything seemed to indicate that it would carry the latest presented by Intel. But yesaccording to Pike's Universum, Intel would be working on new processors, perhaps specifically intended for the first iMac Pro made by Apple.
The news would be related to new processors, which we would know under the name of Skylake-EX and Skylake-EP, based on a platform with the name Purley. Apparently, the news is known after consulting the macOS High Sierra beta firmware. If the news is correct, the new iMac Pro would not have the processor presented a few weeks before the developer conference held in early June, known as Core-X Series, under the trade names Skylake and Kaby Lake, probably leaving the latter for the consumer iMac we use so far. What Intel has prepared for us, we do not know.
The same blog adds that the iMac Pro could have another ARM thread. This structure is the same as that used in the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, as this ARM processor is responsible for the power and control of the Touch Bar. Therefore, everything seems to indicate that we will have Touch Bar in the iMac Pro and it will surely be found on the specific keyboard that Apple introduced us to.
Pike's Universum, advanced two months before the presentation of the iMac Pro, some of the features that the iMac Pro would have and its predictions have been correct in a high percentage.