Well-known whistleblower @Dylandkt breaking news: In the upcoming iMac Pro product, Apple will launch another M1 series of Apple Silicon chips, the biggest feature is that it has 12 cores. At present, Apple's self-developed chip has launched three products: M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max.
According to available data: Apple's M1 chip uses an 8-core CPU, equipped with a 7-core or 8-core on-board GPU. The upgraded M1 Pro uses an 8-core or 10-core CPU, while the highest-end M1 Max uses a 10-core CPU, but it does differentiate itself with a higher level of memory support and more GPU cores than the M1 Pro. There is no recommendation on how the cores in the new chip will be configured, but given that the 10-core CPU combines 2 high-efficiency cores and 8 high-performance cores, the new chip may be further differentiated in terms of the number of CPU cores.
Dylandkt goes on to mention: "There's a reason the internal naming candidate is the iMac Pro because it's aimed at professional users." It was previously reported in December that the iMac Pro with a 27-inch Mini-LED ProMotion display could launch in the spring.
In addition to the possibility of embedding the fourth Apple self-developed processor, there are also rumors that Apple will simplify the mac series product name, taking the iMac series as an example, no longer based on the screen size as the basis for division, but according to the mainstream performance / high performance are called iMac / iMac Pro.