Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 3)

Formerly known as Wildcat Lake, Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2

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913965 05/19/2026 Public

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BIOS Guard

The platform must implement hardware controls to provide the platform manufacturer a robust mechanism to prevent unauthorized flash updates, while still allowing platform manufacturer approved updates. Intel® Platform Protection Technology with Intel® BIOS Guard accomplishes this by providing a very robust environment from which signed update images can be cryptographically verified and host flash writes can be done. Furthermore, a Intel® BIOS Guard enabled system does not allow host flash writes from any other environment.