This brief, readable whitepaper by Brian Richardson, a product manager at BIOS-vendor AMI, examines the history of BIOS firmware and explains why chipmaker Intel has invested much time and effort to create and promote a firmware framework to replace BIOS. Why would a chip company care about firmware?

Read on to find out . . .

• The Future of the BIOS: Modular, Scalable, Driver-Based Framework for EFI
• Introducing the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface

• Intel to release next-gen BIOS technology under open source license
• Next-generation BIOS boasts network, security features
• Phoenix unveils next-gen BIOS firmware roadmap
• Phoenix and Microsoft to collaborate on next-gen system firmware
• Tool brings next-gen BIOS features to device designers
• Phoenix aims toolsuite at replacing BIOS with CSS

 
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