Microsoft Teases Windows 11 Support for 7th Gen Intel CPUs, First-Gen AMD Ryzen Chips Citing consumer confusion, the company is also temporarily removing the PC Health Check app, which evaluated whether your system could run Windows 11. By Michael Kan A Dell XPS 13 laptop purchased in 2017 says 'No Windows 11 for you!' Last week, Microsoft angered PC users everywhere when it revealed that Windows 11 won’t officially support CPU processors from a mere four to five years ago. But now the company is considering lowering the system requirements to include two earlier CPU generations: Intel’s “Kaby Lake” 7th-gen chips from 2016 and AMD’s Ryzen 1000 processors from mid-2017.