I'd get one if it's reasonably priced. Just as I paid 3200 € in 2009. But given the iMac Pro's prices I'm afraid they'll charge a lot more. A shame, if it's going to be 'just' a beautiful box to contain (and accept) standard components and run macOS. If it's not, I'm not interested anyway.
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Apple Sends Out Media Invites for WWDC Keynote on June 3
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Louis Rossman made an apt comment in a recent video: "Apple should respect their customers instead of treating them like money pinatas." One of the WWDC invites reminded me of Rossman's comment and deserves a meme...
I see in the picture of the old mac pro design going out in the picture and a new cube design in the picture above the old unit. Which a new Mac Pro is the proverbial unicorn we have been waiting for with a cube design that stacks and has tons of power that will blow your mind 
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Yes and about the old mac pro is a new cube model
I want to believe so badly this could be true but I don't. This was such a fully featured computer and for an amazing price. Modern day Apple has shown it's more interested in more money for fewer features.
Is the invite with the alien for real? Once upon a time, "Alien" was reported to be the code name for an ultra-high-end future MIPs processor (post Cray). MIPS is now doing RISC-V ISA designs. And with all the patches needed in a Core i9 for speculative execution issues, a RISC-V system designed by Apple could be faster than any fully-patched Intel server. So, perhaps the unicorn/alien is a Mac Pro with consisting of arm64 and/or RISC-V processors.
Or maybe just an Arm MacBook.
Or maybe just an Arm MacBook.
Ahh good speculation, Apple's processor the A series is really a Arm RISC processor like we had with the PowerPC line of computers.
Makes you wonder if Apple is switching to their own A series processor that will run Mac OS X with 64bit or maybe a 128bit OS like the old DEC VAX would do when i as in college.
With Apple all about security this would be a ultra protective system that both military and corporate security would love. And like you said, with Intel having security chip problems they could be looking to the future.
People forget that Apple was part of the PowerPC processor consortium many years ago with IBM and Motorola, so they have been involved with chip technology for a long time.
- Increasing the word size can speed up multiple precision mathematical libraries, with applications to cryptography, and potentially speed up algorithms used in complex mathematical processing (numerical analysis, signal processing, complex photo editing and audio and video processing).
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Really? Developers seem to be more excited than ever, given that Marzipan will likely change everything.
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As someone who actually was designing PowerPC processors back them, I can tell you that Apple’s “involvement” at the time was basically only that they bought the processors and invested a bit in our company. They weren’t designing any CPUs back then.
Apple has been involved in chip technology since the development of the Apple IIe and original Mac (128k). Before that, Woz may have started (but never finished?) a project to design a bit-slice CPU. Also invested in ARM (or Acorn?) back in the Newton era.