The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs it has already been shipping, plus an early look at what to expect from the 12th-generation Alder Lake.

Intel says these are desktop and laptop CPUs and that they'll reach consumers in the second half of 2021, but details are otherwise pretty sparse.

But as noted above, there were a few evolutionary steps for 11th-gen CPUs.

The full lineup hasn't been announced yet, but Intel did preview some specs for the upcoming Core i9-11900K: eight cores at up to 5.3/4.8 GHz, 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes, and support for 3200MHz DDR4 RAM.

Additionally, we learned that production has begun on Intel's 10nm Ice Lake server processors, which offer increased core counts and improved performance, Intel says.

The company also announced new CPUs for business (11th-gen Intel Core vPro), N-series Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron CPUs for the education market, and 11th-gen Intel Core H-series mobile CPUs that will work in tandem with today's just-announced Nvidia RTX 30-series mobile GPUs in ultra-portable high-end gaming laptops this year.