I have an Asus UX533FD with the same booting problems. I use Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel v5.1.10. I can confirm adding dis_ucode_ldr works. Thank you @Mark for reporting this bug and the workarounds! I am also following the issue on Intel's Github repository. I haven't seen a patch from them.
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