Whiskey Lake Intel CPU incompatible with microcode firmware upgrade

[Johny Beham]

The bug is related to - Bug #1830743 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1830743
The intel-microcode (3.20190514.0ubuntu0.18.04.3) package - https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/intel-microcode causes fail of system boot and results in CPU throttling and heating up rapidly.

I believe since Intel i7-8565U have some hardware updates of the recently known security vulnerabilities it somewhat differs from the rest of the Intel CPUs.

The system info provided with this issue is of stable system. Because of package installation causes complete boot failing this is the maximum system info that can be provided.
Hope it helps.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.33
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 29 02:25:59 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-28 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Johny Beham (jockydoe)]

package info