Intel Raptor Lake: Asus, MSI and Asrock with UEFI updates for 600 series motherboards

By the end of the year, Intel intends to bring a new CPU generation onto the market with the Core i-13000 processors, codenamed Raptor Lake, and thus replace the current Alder Lake CPUs. An exact release date is not known, but the launch is apparently already being prepared by the board partners. At least various UEFI updates that have been published in the past few days speak for this.

Updates from Asus, Asrock and MSI

Specifically, the board partners Asus, Asrock and MSI have now released UEFI updates for their motherboards with the 600 chipset, which should also make the corresponding products suitable for Raptor Lake processors in the future. Links to the corresponding press releases, and thus also to lists with the updates, are linked below as a source. In the meantime, however, all three manufacturers have apparently simply received a Raptor Lake update for all corresponding products anyway.

Of the mainboard providers that are particularly active in this country, only Gigabyte is missing corresponding updates: So far there have been no corresponding press releases about UEFI updates. But it probably won’t be too long before these Gigabytes mainboards are also supplied with updated software.

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Unfortunately, the board partners have not announced any further details about the upcoming Core 13000 processors, so you still have to rely on rumors with regard to the release. Recently there was talk that Raptor Lake could be presented in September before the start of sales in October. The fact that suitable UEFI updates are already appearing would not necessarily contradict this: With the early update, the board partners could ensure that mainboards delivered in October already support Raptor Lake ex works, so not first a UEFI update with an older Alder Lake -CPU needs to be done.

Sources: Asrock, Asus, MSI