Raptor Lake microcode patch arrives for Intel motherboards this month, ASUS and MSI say

Two of Intel's biggest motherboard partners say their users will start receiving new BIOS updates containing the crucial microcode patch for Raptor Lake CPUs next week. In separate statements, ASUS and MSI announced their plans to deliver the new microcode for 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake Core family of CPUs over the course …

[The Dogs Meevonks]

Sure... that'll work

Changing some microcode to fix a manufacturing defect that causes oxidization in the VIAs... sure... sure... sure.

Scumtel need to own the problem and issue a recall... but scumtel being scumtel... they've instead decided to deny, deny, deny, blame the vendors for running out of spec whilst telling vendors they CAN run it out of spec, infact ENCOURAGED vendors to run things out of spec... who cares about power draw if it gets them those few extra benchmark points over AND or a couple of extra frames in some select gaming titles.

But... nooooooo... scumtel gotta be scumtel

[BenMyers]

Obvious why

It is obvious why MSI and Asus are at the head of the queue for Raptor Lake microcode updates. Both focus on gaming computers, often overclocked.

The Reg did not try top contact Lenovo? And what about Gigabyte, also big in the world of gaming? And SuperMicro?