OCP
At a recent OCP Regional Summit held in Prague, AMD shared its plans to replace its AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) firmware with an open-source alternative called Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library (openSIL). The new firmware would be ready for production use in 2026, following a multi-year, four phase development cycle. Firmware is a crucial component for modern computer systems, and on modern AMD systems, that critical code blob is AGESA. Among other things, AGESA is responsible for initializing several sub-systems of the platform, including processor cores, chipset, and memory; and it is frequently updated to support new hardware and resolve bugs. But for all the utility that firmware brings, it can also be a weak point in a system via vulnerable to cyber attacks. So...
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6 by Billy Tallis on 11/25/2020
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20 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2020
EVGA Introduces BR Series Power Supplies: 80Plus Bronze, 450W-750W, $50+
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21 by Joe Shields on 7/2/2018
Power Stamp Alliance Exposes Ice Lake Xeon Details: LGA4189 and 8-Channel Memory
For everyone waiting for Cascade Lake, Intel’s next server Xeon platform, to be launched, noise is being made from the Power Stamp Alliance and its members about the platform...
37 by Ian Cutress on 4/9/2018
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