Microsoft regularly updates the list of supported processors for Windows 11. In the previous change, which happened sometime in May, the company added several new Intel chips to the list, including the new Raptor Lake (13th Gen) processors. However, in a new list published on July 25, Microsoft removed support for several Intel CPUs from the official Windows 11 22H2 support that were previously eligible for the update.
It is important to understand that each version of Windows 11 (21H2 and 22H2) has its own specific list of supported processors. The recent change log from Microsoft applies to the Windows 11 22H2 version.
List of Intel CPUs removed from Microsoft Windows 11 support
The list of removed processors includes Xeons, which are part of Intel’s server processor lineup. The Intel CPUs that Microsoft removes from the official Windows 11 support list are:
- Intel Xeon E-2104G
- Intel Xeon E-2124
- Intel Xeon E-2124G
- Intel Xeon E-2126G
- Intel Xeon E-2134
- Intel Xeon E-2136
- Intel Xeon E-2144G
- Intel Xeon E-2146G
- Intel Xeon E-2174G
- Intel Xeon E-2176G
- Intel Xeon E-2176M
- Intel Xeon E-2186G
- Intel Xeon E-2186M
- Intel Xeon E-2224
- Intel Xeon E-2224G
- Intel Xeon E-2226G
- Intel Xeon E-2226GE
- Intel Xeon E-2234
- Intel Xeon E-2236
- Intel Xeon E-2244G
- Intel Xeon E-2246G
- Intel Xeon E-2254ME
- Intel Xeon E-2254ML
- Intel Xeon E-2274G
- Intel Xeon E-2276G
- Intel Xeon E-2276M
- Intel Xeon E-2276ME
- Intel Xeon E-2276ML
- Intel Xeon E-2278G
- Intel Xeon E-2278GE
- Intel Xeon E-2278GEL
- Intel Xeon E-2286G
- Intel Xeon E-2286M
- Intel Xeon E-2288G
- Intel Xeon E-2314
- Intel Xeon E-2324G
- Intel Xeon E-2334
- Intel Xeon E-2336
- Intel Xeon E-2356G
- Intel Xeon E-2374G
- Intel Xeon E-2378
- Intel Xeon E-2378G
- Intel Xeon E-2386G
- Intel Xeon E-2388G
The above list of unsupported Xeon CPUs includes all of Intel’s Coffee Lake (8th Gen) Core processors. This means that Microsoft has completely removed support for these server-based CPUs, even though their desktop counterparts are still supported. However, almost all Xeon CPUs released after the Coffee Lake generation are still eligible for an upgrade.
On the other hand, the new list of supported processors includes a few new Ryzen models, even the unannounced Ryzen 3 5380! This processor is rumored to be one of the SKUs from AMD’s “Lucienne” lineup, which is based on the Zen 2 CPU and Vega GPU microarchitectures.
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