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I've checked the Intel ARK, and all 13th gen Raptor Lake desktop CPUs, like the Intel Core i5-13500, have only "Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM)" support.

Previous generations, like from the i5-12500 up, all had support for the "Intel vPro® Enterprise".

Did Intel really quietly drop full vPro from all their 13th gen desktop parts? I've tried to search the web, but it seems nobody is talking about this. Surely somebody would notice? Is this just an error on the Intel ARK? Is there any other official resource for specs from Intel I could check?

What I'm specifically interested in is Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) over IP (remote control) that I've used to use on prev gen desktop SKUs. This would mean custom builds with built-in KVM would be much harder to get.

kubek
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I've also asked on the Intel community forum, and an Intel Customer Support Technician replied:

[...] there are no 13th gen Desktop processors with Intel vPro Technology for now, what we can offer you are embedded or mobile (third-party mini PCs/systems, laptops, etc.) processors in case you are more interested in its generation, however, if your priority #1 is to have this technology in all of your systems, you may consider the previous generations in the meantime.

Unless somebody has better information, we can assume this is true, and Intel has quietly dropped vPro from their desktop lineup with no media reporting on this.

kubek
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Intel vPro is a platform, not a single technology or processor feature. When a PC is equipped with a particular CPU, a particular chipset, a particular network card, a particular series of modules related to security features (such as the TPM, and others), all enabled by a particular firmware and by particular drivers, then a PC is vPro.

Intel Ark can only tell you if a particular processor is vPro compatible, but that processor must be paired with ALL the other components, none excluded, to generate a vPro device. The same processor (for example i5-12500) can be present on a vPro device and a non-vPro device. It's not the CPU, but the union of the components, technologies and features: it's a hardware-based Platform, not something you can update via firmware/software.

At the moment the Intel vPro Platform based on 13th-gen Core CPUs has not yet been presented and therefore there is no trace of it on Ark or Intel pages. When the platform will be officially launched (in a very short time), new processors will be added to Ark and information on any already launched CPUs will be updated, if these already launched processors will be compatible with the Platform.

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vPro-compatible CPUs are presented and made available several months after the general availability of the consumer and basic-business CPUs. This is because the vPro Platform includes a significant part of stability - the vPro Enterprise SKU are validated for Windows 10 and 11 - and Intel needs several months for driver/firmware creation and validation. Usually, a new Core gen (consumer or basic-business) is presented in late Q3 and it is available starting early Q4, while the vPro CPUs of that gen are presented in late Q1 or early Q2, up to 6 months after the consumer CPUs.

13th-gen Raptor Lake vPro CPUs will be presented at the end of April or early, and will be available inside new business devices starting mid-Q2.

Giacomo
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