Intel at CES: Alder Lake looks a lot like M1, plus new chips for gaming laptops

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.Using an improved version of the 10nm SuperFin process, Alder Lake will take on Apple's ARM instruction set-based M1 chip and its ilk with a somewhat similar architecture. But as noted above, there were a few evolutionary steps for 11th-gen CPUs. Coming toward the end of Q1 2020, the 14nm Rocket Lake-S with Cypress Cove cores promises some performance boosts like a 50 percent improvement in integrated graphics performance and 19 percent faster instructions per cycle.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.