Intel Plans To Open Up Boot Code
News Tiano implements the Extensible Firmware Interface, an industry standard, and is officially called the Intel Platform for Innovation Framework for EFI. Under the collaboration, Intel will release a driver development kit and what it calls firmware...
[June 2, 2004, 10:15]
End Of The Road In Sight For Antique Heart Of PCs
News This hangover from a distant past is causing more and more problems, said Mark Doran, the principal engineer behind the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) project that aims to humanely kill the antique.
[February 20, 2003, 16:32]
Windows And Intel Macs: What You Need To Know
News Apple's Intel Macs, however, use a newer technology known as Extensible Firmware Interface. These different firmware environments will separate OS X and Windows environments almost as effectively as instruction set architecture did when Macintosh...
[January 24, 2006, 13:50]
Intel To Elaborate On New Multicore Processor
News A few years ago, a number of companies began to work on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), a standard for replacing the BIOS. The BIOS, which records system settings and acts as an interface between a computer's hardware and software, is one...
[September 1, 2003, 10:25]
Microsoft Moves To Integrate Windows With BIOS
Talkback The Intel promoted replacement, (currently heavily critisized by a few), coming in the form of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) which is a lot more flamboyant than the BIOS is an adequate example.
[October 3, 2003, 21:54]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog I learn that the latest EFI version — UEFI 2.0, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which is replacing the threadbare BIOS — has grown more networking capabilities, better 64-bit support, superior flash upgrading skills and is generally...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Intel Hands Off BIOS Replacement
News The Extensible Firmware Interface, which could speed the boot-up process for PCs, has been handed over to a group that will promote and standardise it. The United EFI Forum will essentially try to pave the way for EFI to succeed the BIOS, inside PCs.
[July 27, 2005, 12:45]
Adios To BIOS
News The companies will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading, which is a process that kicks in every time a PC...
[December 30, 2003, 12:05]
Microsoft: Vista SP1 Due Next Year
News Also being added is support for an emerging removable storage file format known as "exFAT", as well as for EFI (extensible firmware interface), an alternative to the BIOS (basic input-output system) that handles the initial start-up of a system.
[August 29, 2007, 18:15]
