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

Windows 11 logo on an Intel chip

Towards the end of July, Microsoft removed several Intel processors from its official Windows 11 supported CPU list. The change was pretty surprising as those chips were previously supported and there weren't any alterations made to the OS system requirements that warranted such changes.

Later on, in October, Microsoft seemed to realize its mistake and restored several of the CPUs on the list. Most consumers though weren't affected by this at all as they were Xeon SKUs, and even if a user owned such a Xeon processor, Windows 11 likely continued to work nicely on such PCs.

Fast forward a couple of months, and Microsoft has now added many new Intel x86 processors to the list of supported CPUs on Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2. Towards the end of September, the company began ensuring system requirements compatibility for Windows 11 version 23H2 after confirming earlier that hardware eligibility on 23H2 will remain unchanged from 22H2.

The new Intel processors added to the list mainly consist of 14th Gen Intel desktop and laptop CPUs. On the desktop side of things, Intel released new chips based on Raptor Lake-S refresh, while on the mobile front, the company unveiled new Meteor Lake parts that come with a new naming scheme as it (temporarily) dropped the Core "i" nomenclature in favor of "Ultra". The chips also have what Intel refers to as NPUs (Neural Processing Units) and VPUs (Vision Processing Units). Word on the street is that the next Windows version will be released in June of next year alongside a slew of AI-heavy PCs.

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

Intel Core 3 processor 100U
Intel Core 5 processor 120U
Intel Core 7 processor 150U
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 125H
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 125U
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 134U
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 135H
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 135U
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155U
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 164U
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 165H
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 165U
Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 185H

Meanwhile, the newly added Raptor Lake refresh (desktop and a few notebooks) models are:

Intel Core i9-14900
Intel Core i9-14900F
Intel Core i9-14900HX
Intel Core i9-14900K
Intel Core i9-14900KF
Intel Core i9-14900T
Intel Core i7-14650HX
Intel Core i7-14700
Intel Core i7-14700F
Intel Core i7-14700HX
Intel Core i7-14700K
Intel Core i7-14700KF
Intel Core i7-14700T
Intel Core i5-14400
Intel Core i5-14400F
Intel Core i5-14400T
Intel Core i5-14450HX
Intel Core i5-14490F
Intel Core i5-14500
Intel Core i5-14500HX
Intel Core i5-14500T
Intel Core i5-14600
Intel Core i5-14600K
Intel Core i5-14600KF
Intel Core i5-14600T
Intel Core i3-14100
Intel Core i3-14100F
Intel Core i3-14100T

You can view the full list of Intel Windows 11-supported processors on Microsoft's website. Meanwhile, on the AMD side, Microsoft seems to have ignored newly announced Ryzen 8000 series parts for some reason.