13th Generation Intel® Core™, Intel® Core™ 14th Generation, Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 1) and (Series 2), Intel® Xeon™ E 2400 Processor and Intel® Xeon™ 6300 Processor

Datasheet, Volume 1 of 2
Supporting 13th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor for S, H, P, HX, and U Processor Line Platforms, formerly known as Raptor Lake.
Supporting Intel® Core™ 14th Generation Processor for S, HX formerly known As Raptor Lake Refresh.
Supporting Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 1) for U Processor Line Platform, formerly known As Raptor Lake refresh
Supporting Intel® Core™ Processor (Series 2) for H Processor Line Platform, formerly known As Raptor Lake Refresh.
Supporting Intel® Xeon® E 2400 Processor and Intel® Xeon® 6300 Processor, formerly known As Raptor Lake–E Refresh

ID Date Version Classification
743844 05/30/2025 Public
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Boot Guard Technology

Boot Guard technology is a part of boot integrity protection technology. Boot Guard can help protect the platform boot integrity by preventing the execution of unauthorized boot blocks. With Boot Guard, platform manufacturers can create boot policies such that invocation of an unauthorized (or untrusted) boot block will trigger the platform protection per the manufacturer's defined policy.

With verification based in the hardware, Boot Guard extends the trust boundary of the platform boot process down to the hardware level.

Boot Guard accomplishes this by:

  • Providing of hardware-based Static Root of Trust for Measurement (S-RTM) and the Root of Trust for Verification (RTV) using Intel architectural components.
  • Providing of architectural definition for platform manufacturer Boot Policy.
  • Enforcing manufacturer provided Boot Policy using Intel architectural components.

Benefits of this protection are that Boot Guard can help maintain platform integrity by preventing re-purposing of the manufacturer’s hardware to run an unauthorized software stack.

Note:Boot Guard availability may vary between the different SKUs.