UEFI, The Future BIOS

The UEFI BIOS chip is the being pointed to, it is small

             ASUS currently doesn't have a schedule for the introduction of UEFI motherboards, but Bristow points maintains that as the leader in the motherboard industry, there is no doubt that Asus holds the know-how to move to 3TB support.

In fact, other motherboard manufacturers have already dabbled with this potential usurper of the BIOS. is MSI, which announced three Intel P45-based motherboards with a 32MB UEFI ROM a few years ago, which it refers to as its ClickBIOS system.

            Speaking to bit-tech, MSI's Garrett Wu in Taiwan said that the company plans to implement UEFI on whole new product series in the finish of this year as well.

            In terms of what this means for us, they can probably expect 3TB consumer-class hard disks to start appearing next year, by which time we'll require to have gone beyond 32-bit operating systems, replaced the BIOS with UEFI & got a whole new collection of drivers. Can it be done? Yes, but they can definitely expect teething troubles.

There's plenty of issues to address here:

1. First is the size: A UEFI process is usually bigger than a traditional BIOS & most of the onboard ROM is not that massive, so you can't flash UEFI in to a traditional BIOS board.
2. Limited Mothboard Support: you require to make use of positive code with positive motherboards. Here's Why: Motherboard companies spend plenty of time developing their own features & know-how that distinguish their motherboards from those of the competition. If these features are designed to interface with the code in a traditional BIOS, then they may not be able to communicate with a UEFI process.
3. Programming platform: UEFI is written in C, while BIOS is written in assembly code. But, this means that there's much more flexibility with the code, it would become much more customizable, hackable to do things which were not simple to do with BIOS before.
4. UEFI is going under plenty of continuous work, but the final thing would be much more adaptable, customizable, feature-ful, hackable & yet cheap.