The basic structure of Aptio is built within UEFI's open software framework and is fully compatible with the latest UEFI 2.3.1 specification, to shorten the time that program designers will need to develop a new system.Īround-the-clock technical support to satisfy clients' development needsĪccording to Kenny Tseng, Executive Vice President of American Megatrends (Greater China), "Starting in 2010, the consumer market worldwide has experienced great changes and with impacts from the rise of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs, vendors are now faced with the tough challenge that they must shorten the time of their product development." In response to these challenges, American Megatrends has designed the Aptio platform in such a way as to ease its adoption into a wide variety of computing environments, including mobile devices, embedded systems, notebooks, personal computers and servers. With UEFI set to become the future standard of BIOS firmware, American Megatrends started developing EFI-based solutions in 1998 and launched the Aptio development platform in alignment with EFI/UEFI standards in 2004. Considering Taiwan's status as an important base of the global IT industry, the company established its Taiwan branch in 1996 to provide Taiwan's IT players with more direct and efficient support services. AMI (USA) Vice President Stefano Righi and Principal Engineer Alex Podgorsky were invited to the seminar to provide in-depth analyses of the current development status of UEFI, showing that American Megatrends, as the leader in the BIOS industry, is able and determined to always maintain its technologies at the highest level.Īmerican Megatrends, founded in 1985, has over 900 employees worldwide with a large proportion of the market share in BIOS and UEFI firmware.
The worldwide IT industry is eagerly preparing to welcome the new operating system, hoping its impressive new user interface will spark a demand explosion among consumers to revitalize a consumer market that has been gloomy for a long time.Īs a leader in BIOS technologies, American Megatrends - provider of the fast and user-friendly cross-platform UEFI firmware development platform Aptio® - hosted a UEFI technology seminar on October 21 at the Taipei International Convention Center to allow related players and firmware designers to understand the technologies related to the latest version of its Aptio firmware, and the connection between UEFI and next-generation operating systems. In addition to demonstrating support for UEFI 2.3.1, AMI also provided demonstrations of standards and technologies for this development platform at BUILD including such as SecureBoot, FastBoot, SeamlessBoot, USB 3.0, OA 3.0, TPM, eDrive, IPv6, GPT and CSM Opt-Out.
At Microsoft's developer-focused BUILD conference in September earlier this year, American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) launched the industry's first development platform that is compatible with the next-generation operating system. With Microsoft's soon-to-be-released next-generation operating system featuring significant and revolutionary changes within the software's architecture and application methods, an advanced UEFI technology will be needed to fully execute its advanced functions. However, as various IT technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, BIOS technologies have gradually become unable to satisfy the current usage environment and are being replaced by the new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), which offers a faster booting time than legacy BIOS and a broader range of support. Even before the first personal computer appeared in 1984, BIOS technologies, which are needed to initialize hardware, test hardware functionalities and start the operating system, were already in use for more than 30 years.
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