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Hardware Compatibility

Andrew Mello edited this page May 26, 2026 · 1 revision

Hardware Compatibility

Supported

Intel vPro Enterprise with AMT 6.0 or later. Requires a Q-series or W-series chipset (or mobile vPro equivalent). Consumer H/B/Z chipsets have no AMT firmware.

Tested generations

Generation AMT version CSME Notes
Sandy Bridge (2nd gen) 7.x
Ivy Bridge (3rd gen) 8.x
Haswell (4th gen) 9.x amtterm broken on AMT ≥9; IMC works
Broadwell (5th gen) 10.x
Skylake (6th gen) 11.x 11.x
Kaby Lake (7th gen) 11.6 11.6
Coffee Lake (8th/9th gen) 12.x 12.x
Comet Lake (10th gen) 14.x 14.x
Tiger Lake (11th gen) 15.x 15.x
Alder Lake (12th gen) 16.x 16.1+ TLS-only enforcement — cleartext ports dropped on some ops
Raptor Lake (13th gen) 16.1 16.1+ Same as Alder Lake
Meteor Lake / Core Ultra 18.x

CSME 16.1+ TLS note

Alder Lake and Raptor Lake machines with CSME 16.1+ enforce TLS for some AMT operations. amt-protocol.js auto-upgrades IDER connections from port 16994 → 16995 on ECONNREFUSED. For WS-Man, always select TLS (port 16993) in the IMC connection settings.

Tested OEMs

  • Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkStation, ThinkCentre
  • Dell OptiPlex, Latitude, Precision
  • HP EliteBook, EliteDesk, Z-series
  • Intel NUC Pro

Not supported

Hardware Reason
Consumer chipsets (H/B/Z) No AMT firmware
AMD platforms AMT is Intel-only
Xeon Scalable (server) Use IPMI / Redfish / iDRAC instead
vPro Essentials / Evo In-band management only — no OOB
ARM Not supported

Checking AMT availability

# On target Linux machine (requires LMS or /dev/mei0)
rpc amtinfo

Or scan the network:

nmap -p 16992,16993 192.168.1.0/24 --open -oG - | grep open

AMT machines respond on port 16992 or 16993. Machines that don't respond have no AMT or AMT is disabled in MEBx.

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