The boost stemmed from customer requests for a faster quad-core server chipset ... Intel also said it plans to release in the third quarter the 7000-series of its dual-core Xeon processor in ...
Intel told its customers to look for a BIOS update in January that would improve the performance of its Core Ultra 200 series processors. Synthetic benchmarks were showing even more performance ...
TL;DR - Intel and Lenovo release the firmware updates as Windows executables so you'll have to build a USB drive with Windows PE with all the necessary drivers and update utilities. You boot your PC ...
Intel denied any flaw with the processor ... Update: Sood says, "it's not an issue of Intel's chip reliability, it's an issue of platform stability on certain non-Intel chipsets." ...