As we said, that means you either go out and buy the appropriate TPM module and plug it into the header, or you simply flip on the firmware TPM already built in the 8th-gen CPU. This throws up a flag in Microsoft’s Windows 11 requirement check, saying you need a TPM 2.0 is enabled. For example, on an 8th-gen Core i7 PC, we found the TPM support in its default state of “discrete”-which, as with most consumer desktops, means ‘off,’ because there was no optional TPM module installed. While support for the TPM on a 7-year-old PC to run Windows 11 is going to cause hand-wringing for the next six months, even newer PCs can have troubles.
The consumer 11th-gen laptop (left) uses Intel’s embedded TPM, while the business-focused 8th-gen laptop (right) features a discrete TPM.
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