PERSONAL COMPUTER APPLICATION SOFTWARE FIRMWARE ALLOWING

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
PHOENIXBIOS 4.0	PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.	411 East Plumeria San Jose CA 95134	personal computer application software/firmware allowing ease of installation and ease of use, and user manuals for use therewith;PHOENIX BIOS 40;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A method and system to provide platform-based optimization routines by firmware of a computer system. During a pre-boot phase of a computer system, the firmware identifies one or more hardware devices, such as a central processing unit (CPU) or chipset, of a computer system. The firmware determines an optimized routine library for the one or more hardware devices from a set of optimized routine libraries. The firmware advertises the optimized routine library corresponding to the one or more hardware devices to the computer system for use by an operating system or application. In one embodiment, the firmware of the computer system operates in accordance with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) framework standard.