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Nope. If Apple does introduce one last Intel-based Mac, all bets are on an updated Mac Pro with Xeon W-3300 CPU—these are based on Ice Lake. Alder Lake-based Xeons ("Sapphire Rapids") are expected soon, but yet be released, and the first parts are always the server versions, with workstation parts coming later (end 2022? too late for Apple anyway).gotta be the i9, it just makes more sense to me, if Apple ever do put out another intel mac.. long shot i know but hey you never know, its surely going to be based on this architecture so should properly support P + E cores with proper sharing of workload for given task.
Sapphire Rapids only uses P-cores. Another declination with (lots of) E-cores only is planned for 2024 ("Sierra Forest"). Hybrid architecture CPUs are NOT welcome in the data centre.
Apple has no incentive whatsoever to use Alder Lake: It runs way too hot for their compact designs. With the release of the Mac Studio, I even think Apple has very little incentive to update the big Mac Pro with an Intel CPU and that we have seen the last Intel Mac already.
The 27" iMac has been silently discontinued. Left are the (Coffee Lake) Intel Mac mini, which will probably be discontinued in the near future, and the (Cascade Lake) Mac Pro. Announcing an Apple Silicon Mac Pro at the next WWDC would complete the transition exactly two years after it was announced—I expect that this opportunity will NOT be missed.
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