Intel only brings its vPro platform to the new Core Ultra processors. The fourteenth generation Core i chips do not receive support for the business platform.

Intel announces at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it is bringing its vPro platform to its new Core Ultra chips. The manufacturer launched these processors in December last year. They have an NPU on board that can hardly support relevant workloads today, but has single-handedly triggered the marketing storm surrounding the “AI PC”.

What’s more interesting about these processors is the new process technology. The chips are based on the Intel 4 process and are technically the most advanced CPUs that Intel has on offer today. Thanks to the smaller components such as transistors, they are more efficient and offer more horsepower than their predecessors with the same TDP. So even without the AI ​​hype, there’s plenty to be excited about the Core Ultra laptop chips, and now they’re ready for large business environments too.

New vPro

According to Intel, all Core Ultra chips support vPro. However, not one vPro is the same as another. They have vPro Essentials, which is tailored for SMBs with up to twenty employees, and vPro Enterprise for larger companies. vPro Essentials is a light version that includes some of the features, while vPro is the “real” vPro. This release includes all the security and management features you expect. To no one’s surprise, vPro Enterprise is based primarily on the more expensive variants of the Core Ultra chips, forcing enterprise laptops to integrate them.

New to vPro this year is better Intel Threat Detection technology, which can run on all cores and the NPU. This has to be more efficient. The new Intel Security Engine will better authenticate a system’s firmware.

Not for Core i

It is also noticeable that Intel is ignoring its latest fourteenth generation Core i chips. These CPUs will not receive vPro support for the time being. Intel makes it clear that they are intended exclusively for consumer laptops. This is not a disaster: Intel claims that these CPUs are a generation newer than their predecessors, but in reality they are the same Intel 7-based processors in a different guise.