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Intel is releasing another microcode update to protect crashing Raptor Lake CPUs

A 14th Gen Intel Core i9 processor on a blue Intel box
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

Get ready for another wave of urgent motherboard updates for your desktop PC. Intel has just announced a new microcode update for its 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake processors — the ones that could possibly get permanently damaged and begin to crash your PC.

While there’s still no fix for chips that are already crashing, the company is now releasing microcode update 0x12B to motherboard manufacturers to help prevent one of the root causes of damage. In this case, it prevents the Intel CPU from asking for too much power when it’s just sitting idle or performing light tasks. (Too much voltage can prematurely age a chip.)

Intel says it may take several weeks for motherboard manufacturers to validate and roll out BIOS updates across their…

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