GRUB not applying Intel Microcode?

[Kyle K <kylek389@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I'm unsure whether or not the latest Intel CPU microcode is getting 
applied in my Debian 10 install. I have non-free repo enabled and 
firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree intel-microcode iucode-tool 
installed. In my grub.cfg I don't see anything that resembles "initrd  
/intel-ucode.img /initrd.img-4.19.0-6-amd64". In fact 
/boot/intel-ucode.img is not even present. I tried rerunning 
'update-initramfs -u -k all' and regenerating grub.cfg with 
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub.cfg

dmesg | grep microcode:
[    0.848080] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x27
[    0.848868] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.

My system:
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.0-6-amd64 
(debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 
SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u
1 (2019-09-20)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvolroot ro intel_iommu=on
[    0.000000] DMI: Supermicro X10SLH-F/X10SLM+-F/X10SLH-F/X10SLM+-F, 
BIOS 3.2a 05/31/2019
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 60
model name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz
stepping    : 3
microcode    : 0x27


1. Is microcode getting applied?
2. How come Debian doesn't generate /boot/intel-ucode.img like other 
distros?

Thank you.