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> Or break up the damn covert cabal that’s the 3 major bios producers

I'm curious about that - why isn't there more competition, especially when everything you need to do it without them is easily available online? Like, not just specs, all the actual code you'd need is open source and AIUI friendly to use. Frankly, why aren't most motherboards shipping with lightly-patched coreboot+edk2?



>I'm curious about that - why isn't there more competition

Because like most consumer PC parts, it's a race to the bottom low margin low wage business, usually offshored to Asia, that's only remotely profitable for the top 2-3 players who captured the market and optimized the costs, processes, development and supply chain to the max.

Why would anyone else want to enter such a market to compete for even lower profits?


Most, if not all, consumer motherboard manufacturers are Asian themselves (Taiwan)


Sure, but must major BIOS manufacturers, Award, Phoenix, AMI are American AFAIK.


Don't forget the co-inventor of EFI (along with Intel), Insyde...


AMI sure is, says it right in the name, lol




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