Microsoft adds multiple Intel processors to Windows 11 23H2/22H2 official support list

At the end of July, Microsoft removed several Intel processors from the list of officially supported CPUs in Windows 11. This change is quite surprising as these chips were previously supported and there were no changes to the system requirements for the operating system.

Later, in October, Microsoft seemed to realize its mistake and reinstated several CPUs from the list. However, most consumers are not affected at all because they are all Xeon SKUs, and even if the user has such a Xeon processor, Windows 11 will likely continue to run normally on such a PC.

A few months later, Microsoft added a number of Intel x86 processors to the list of supported CPUs for Windows 1122H2 and 23H2. At the end of September, the company began ensuring system requirement compatibility for Windows 11 23H2 versions, having previously confirmed that hardware qualifications for 23H2 would remain unchanged from 22H2.

The newly added Intel processors mainly include 14th generation Intel desktop and laptop CPUs. On the desktop side, Intel released new chips based on the Raptor Lake-S update, while on the mobile side, the company released new Meteor Lake parts that feature a new naming scheme as it (temporarily) ditched the Core "i" nomenclature in favor of "Ultra." The chips also feature what Intel calls NPU (Neural Processing Unit) and VPU (Visual Processing Unit).

Sources suggest that the next version of Windows will be released in June next year, along with a series of AI-heavy PCs.

The newly added Intel Meteor Lake (mobile) CPUs are: