BIOS is reaching the end of its powers and new technologies are not supported any longer by this system, and this is what UEFI tries to fix. We hope this article will shed some light on the matter.

UEFI is much more sophisticated than the PC BIOS. The UEFI standard defines a boot process and API along with a driver architecture that is modular. It takes advantage new PCI Express standards.

To understand the transition from legacy BIOS to UEFI firmware, it’s best to begin with a review of a decades-old system—the 1983 IBM-compatible PC—and continue with a study of its successor ...

Often referred to as the BIOS (basic input/output system), this firmware is becoming a modular and configurable system element based on the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) standard. The ...

Unlike the old, dependable BIOS, however, UEFI comes with a flashy-mouse driven interface; and instead of being written in assembly, it's written in C -- which means that it needs more resources ...

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the low-level software that has been used manage the boot process on personal computers, including Windows PCs and Macs, since the old-style BIOS ...

Phoenix SecureCore Technology (Phoenix SCT) 3.0, the latest UEFI BIOS firmware from Phoenix Technologies, uses a graphical user interface to simplify once obscure BIOS settings.

NORCROSS, Ga. and TAIPEI, Taiwan , Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a leader in BIOS and computing innovations, announced the launch of Aptio®V, the newest version of its ...

UEFI vulnerabilities are not new and researchers have presented such flaws over the years at security conferences. They’re valuable for attackers because they can be used to install highly ...