AMI is excited to be a partner for UEFI boot firmware for this NVIDIA project, driving the industry forward by introducing new applications of AI technology into our everyday lives. Notably, this collaboration brings a set of new firmware features to the desktop that were previously available only in the data center.

Aptio V for the NVIDIA DGX Spark delivers a turnkey UEFI firmware solution that is production-ready, feature-rich and finely tuned for this AI-forward platform. Partners and customers will receive the high standard of reliability and security AMI is known for, along with enterprise firmware features such as out-of-band management, memory error detection and event logging.

These are just a few things that AI developers and IT administrators can leverage to get fully immersed this new era of AI personal computing. Powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, NVIDIA DGX Spark offers incredible AI computing performance for running large AI models on the desktop that were previously only feasible with high-cost servers.

Sanjoy Maity, CEO of AMI, commented that “Our Aptio V UEFI firmware enablement for this new NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer from NVIDIA will help usher in new levels of performance, reliability, and features that until now were only available in the data center – creating a new paradigm of what is possible in a small form-factor desktop system focused on AI developer, researcher and data scientist workloads.”

To learn more about AMI’s firmware and software products for enabling AI and general-purpose systems from the cloud to the edge, visit us at https://www.ami.com/.

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The Radxa Orion O6 is a groundbreaking high-performance Mini ITX motherboard designed for AI applications, described by Radxa as the “World’s First Open-Source Arm®v9 Motherboard”. The Orion O6 marks an important milestone in small form-factor AI computing, delivering powerful CPU performance, advanced hardware capabilities, a high degree of expandability and robust system firmware directly to the end user.

The Orion O6 includes the CiX P1 – CD8180 System on Chip (SoC), using Arm big.LITTLE™ technology and featuring a quad-core Arm Cortex®-A720 at 2.6GHz, quad-core Cortex-A720 at 2.4GHz and quad-core Cortex-A520 at 1.8GHz with 12MB of shared L3 cache. It runs the Debian® OS and includes an Arm® Immortalis™-G720 GPU, while the NPU delivers 30 TOPs of computing power. The platform also features 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and can expand up to 64GB, along with PCIe Gen4 8-lane connectivity.

Aptio V UEFI Firmware from AMI is known worldwide for its robustness, security, adaptability, and scalability. By combining feature-rich platform packages that are modular and easy to integrate, Aptio V delivers a platform bring-up journey that is efficient, cost-effective, reliable, and on time.

Srivatsan Ramachandran, SVP of Global Strategic Alliances and Ecosystem Development at AMI, commented that “this Radxa Orion O6 demo platform powered by our Aptio V UEFI Firmware represents a great leap forward in AI compute infrastructure targeted at AI applications and edge computing. Aptio V ensures the powerful system configuration, security, and stability required by these advanced platforms are at end users’ fingertips. We are proud to work with CIX and Radxa on this demo highlighted at COMPUTEX and excited to see how the industry will react.”

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C-DAC selected AMI’s India branch through a competitive tender process to develop the UEFI/BIOS firmware for this new server, a testament to AMI’s extensive expertise in firmware innovation. This joint effort strengthens the “Make in India” initiative and reinforces India’s push for self-reliant, innovative technology solutions tailored to local needs.

“Since its inception, C-DAC has been recognized as leader in Indian supercomputing. AMI is also widely recognized as the global leader in the BIOS firmware market. This partnership with AMI to develop UEFI/BIOS firmware will help in creating a robust server infrastructure and contribute to the indigenization efforts aimed at achieving self-reliance in critical technologies,” said E. Magesh, Director General of C-DAC.

“C-DAC and AMI India share a commitment and vision for delivering innovative solutions that drive India’s technological capabilities and digital transformation forward. We are therefore greatly excited to embark on the next phase of our transformative journey with AMI, working closely together to develop the next generation of Intel-based server designs,” added Sanjay Wandhekar, Centre Head of C-DAC, Pune.

“We are thrilled that C-DAC recognized AMI’s leadership in developing dynamic firmware solutions, based in part on our strong collaboration together on the RUDRA project. We are confident that our forthcoming contributions will provide a solid foundation for the next generation of indigenous, innovative server designs from C-DAC and ensure a robust and secure future for the ‘Make in India’ initiative,” added Arvind Jayabal, GM of AMI India.

About C-DAC:

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is India’s premier R&D organization under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for carrying out R&D in IT, electronics and associated areas. It is well known for its work in the areas of High-Performance Computing, Quantum Computing, Digital India RISC-V (DIR-V) and Strategic Electronics, Multilingual Computing and Heritage Computing, Cyber Security & Cyber Forensics, Software Technologies including FOSS, Healthcare Technologies and Education & Training. For more information, visit https://cdac.in/.

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Sep 28 2022, 12:00pm EDT
Duration: 45 mins

Presented by

Brian Mullen and Felix Polyudov, AMI

About this talk

Traditionally, capturing a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for UEFI firmware has been seen as challenging. Some technical challenges include immutable blobs in the image (e.g., Intel FSP and CPU microcode). Other roadblocks are due to a process where IHVs contribute binary DXE objects to the ODM. Finally, some challenges are due to commercial issues where code might be licensed from the IBV but modified by the ODM.
This talk will focus on the following topics:

• How to include accurate SBOM metadata that is compliant with NTIA’s The Minimum Elements For a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) guidelines in a UEFI firmware project?
• What edge conditions and use cases need to be considered when implementing SBOM?
• What approaches can enable extracting and consuming SBOM data from one supply chain partner to another?

The talk plans to address several industry-wide items necessary for broader adoption of SBOM in the firmware ecosystem.

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System firmware attacks continue in their prevalence and sophistication, driving manufacturers to ensure that their platforms are protected from boot up and beyond. As a market leader in UEFI firmware development and firmware security, AMI’s Aptio UEFI Firmware includes the security features that OEMs and ODMs require to protect end-users and their systems from the moment they press the power button.

Under this UEFI development collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, AMI will extend firmware security and UEFI Firmware development support, beginning with the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform. This agreement will extend to future Snapdragon compute platforms providing AMI UEFI source code designed with security in mind and the testing and support infrastructure needed to help maintain the security of Snapdragon compute platforms, including protection at the firmware level.

Speaking about the significance of this agreement, AMI Chief Executive Officer Sanjoy Maity commented, “AMI is extremely pleased to announce our new collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., an industry leader bringing advanced Arm-architecture designs such as Snapdragon to a broad cross-section of applications. Our reputation and experience, together with our support for all types of architectures and platforms, will allow us to deliver robust firmware security and best-in-class firmware development to Qualcomm Technologies. Looking ahead, AMI will continue to deepen its UEFI development efforts for the expanding Arm client ecosystem, working together with Qualcomm Technologies as a key collaborator around its ongoing ‘Windows on Snapdragon’ projects. We are confident that AMI will extend Qualcomm Technologies’ security solutions and help deliver innovative UEFI Firmware available for its new platforms.”

For more information on Aptio V UEFI Firmware from AMI, please visit https://www.ami.com/power-up/ or contact us at https://www.ami.com/contact-us/

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In short, AMI can confidently state that the vulnerability described in the presentation is firmly in the past – as indicated within the presentation. AMI resolved and closed this security issue several years ago. However, to alleviate any potential concern that our partners, customers or end-users may have, AMI can share the following additional details:

What is the compromised code in question?

The Binarly presentation refers to a section of AMI UEFI BIOS reference code in the context of showing historical and current examples of UEFI firmware vulnerabilities. It specifically mentioned the “AMI UsbRT architecture” and described an attack methodology for a vulnerability within it. AMI would like to emphasize that this portion of AMI source code is now approximately seven years old and no longer featured in current AMI UEFI products.

Should AMI partners, customers or end-users of AMI UEFI Firmware products have any concerns?

AMI would like to clarify that this attack represents something that was patched/resolved by AMI several years ago and is no longer a viable point of attack. The code in question is no longer a part of AMI products and was addressed and remediated by AMI as soon as we were made aware of it. Therefore, it represents a past, closed security issue that has no relevance in 2022. All software producers should be aware that any product deployed in the past affected by security issues will continue to be susceptible to the same security issues until remediated.

Does AMI have a solution for future issues like this that may arise?

With its BIOS and BMC firmware products deployed on most computing systems across the globe, AMI is deeply committed to its role as a leader in firmware security. The company has established an in-house product security incident response team to respond to security issues rapidly and decisively. The team provides recommendations to its OEM/ODM customers and the industry at large through AMI Security Advisories and other communication channels. These security advisories enable customers to enact timely downstream remediation in the form of guidance and patches. For AMI OEM/ODM customers, we request that you contact your AMI Sales Representative for our latest Security Advisory information. See here for more details: https://www.ami.com/security-center/

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KingTiger, a leader in memory testing solutions, recently developed the iMS memory error prevention software to embed with Aptio® V UEFI  BIOS Firmware from AMI, testing the innovative technology with soon-to-be-released hardware from AAEON, an industry leader in edge computing solutions. This new and innovative solution from KingTiger enables systems to avoid memory errors without ECC support, ensuring secure, reliable and accurate data reporting in edge computing and big data systems.

The Case for Memory Error Testing and Prevention

Data integrity is vital to a wide range of big data and data-based applications. From medical records to finance, memory errors can wreak havoc on accuracy, reliability and even data safety and security. For larger and more powerful computing systems, this is usually solved with the use of error-correcting code (ECC) memory. However, ECC memory is often limited to specific processor chipsets that support this hardware solution – often requiring developers and users to upgrade their hardware platforms to higher performance, more expensive platforms where the extra power and cost are otherwise unjustified, such as in edge computing applications.

To address these issues, KingTiger developed iMS, a software-based approach to ECC memory. The iMS (intelligent Memory Surveillance) software is deployable on platforms which otherwise do not support ECC memory, allowing developers and users to use platforms with more appropriate processing capabilities – reducing cost while maintaining data integrity.

The iMS software can detect erroneous bits and mask them before they cause errors within the data and avoid system crashes. iMS provides an advantage over ECC memory in that it can detect and mask an unlimited number of bits, whereas ECC memory is typically limited to one bit per address. It also effectively extends the lifecycle of memory/RAM modules by being able to handle a greater number of error bits.

KingTiger worked with AMI to integrate the iMS software into AMI’s Aptio V UEFI BIOS Firmware. And as longtime users of AMI’s UEFI BIOS Firmware and with expertise in OEM/ODM platform testing, AAEON tested the iMS integrated Aptio V UEFI Firmware on a range of platforms featuring the 8^th Generation Intel® Core™ U processors (formerly “Whiskey Lake”).

Thanks to these efforts, KingTiger has announced the official launch iMS today, while AAEON will soon be offering the Aptio V UEFI Firmware with embedded iMS on their 8^th Generation Intel Core based products in early 2021. Future plans from AAEON include featuring KingTiger iMS software on the upcoming lineup of platforms with 11^th Generation Intel® Core™ U processors (formerly “Tiger Lake”).

About KingTiger

KingTiger Technology Inc. (KTi) is a well-known DRAM tester & memory testing technology provider from Toronto, Canada with over three decades expertise in memory upgrade solutions from devices to systems. KTi has helped Intel, Dell, HPE, Inspur and Apple to build the most stable memory applications and systems using its proprietary memory technology. For more information about KingTiger and iMS visit http://kingtigertech.com/ims/

About AAEON

Established in 1992, AAEON is one of the leading designers and manufacturers of industrial IoT and AI Edge solutions. With continual innovation as a core value, AAEON provides reliable, high-quality computing platforms including industrial motherboards and systems, rugged tablets, embedded AI Edge systems, uCPE network appliances, and LoRaWAN/WWAN solutions. AAEON also provides industry-leading experience and knowledge to provide OEM/ODM services worldwide. AAEON also works closely with cities and governments to develop and deploy Smart City ecosystems, offering individual platforms and end-to-end solutions. AAEON works closely with premier chip designers to deliver stable, reliable platforms, and is recognized as an Associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, as well as an NVIDIA® Preferred Partner. For an introduction to AAEON’s expansive line of products and services, visit www.aaeon.com.

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Intel Memory Resilience Technology, optimized for Intel Xeon Scalable platforms, is specifically designed to improve customers’ datacenter uptime and total cost of operation (TCO) by predicting DDR4 memory failures. For Aptio V UEFI Firmware, the Intel Memory Resilience Technology solution comes in the form of the IntelMfpSupport eModule and includes OEM IPMI command additions. For MegaRAC BMC Firmware this support is available as an Option Pack, which includes code to process the memory errors complemented by the DIMM Health Assessment Model (DHAM) from Intel, along with periodic module updates.

As part of this initiative, AMI is authorized to provide the same world-class technical support for the Aptio V eModule and the MegaRAC Option Pack that is represented by all AMI products. Moreover, both AMI and Intel will continue to offer information and training for customers considering integration of these value-added firmware solutions.

The Benefits of Intel Memory Resilience Technology

DIMM failures are one of the most common causes of server downtime, notorious for severely impacting system reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS). These failures can be caused by a wide range of sources beyond normal use, such as manufacturing defects or extreme environmental or operating conditions. While currently accepted techniques such as Error Correcting Code (ECC) and correctable errors threshold-based Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) help overcome some correctable errors with DIMM, they have cost, reliability, coverage and performance implications – and cannot help to overcome uncorrectable errors.

As a more complete solution, Intel Memory Resilience Technology features several innovative and original capabilities. It predicts micro-level failures in rows, columns and cells based on historical data, using a low-overhead online learning method to improve its prediction accuracy and avoid interfering with critical compute tasks. This also enables Intel Memory Resilience Technology to generate an estimated memory health score for proactive memory failure management.

For data centers and cloud service providers, the benefits of adding Intel Memory Resilience Technology support in Aptio V UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC BMC Firmware are clear and immediate. Datacenter service level agreements (SLA) are improved, DIMM failure rates are reduced through proactive memory health evaluation and enhanced memory page offlining policies, and most importantly, higher DIMM performance and reliability optimizes workload and VM migration decision-making to boost efficiency, flexibility and TCO.

To highlight the benefits of Intel Memory Resilience Technology in the datacenter, an Intel case study conducted with Tencent, the leading provider of cloud services in the APAC region, identified a five-fold improvement in DIMM failure prediction and reduced downtime, as well as fewer unnecessary DIMM replacement and upgrade expenses. A similar case study carried out by Intel with Meituan, the leading eCommerce services provider in the APAC region, revealed that Intel Memory Resilience Technology could enable Meituan to reduce server crashes caused by memory failure by up to 40% through intelligent analysis of server memory health and proactive memory failure prediction.

Sanjoy Maity, Chief Executive Officer of AMI, commented that “AMI is committed to adopting ground-breaking technologies from industry drivers like Intel that make our products more relevant and effective for datacenter and cloud services end-users. This commitment has been a key component of our long-standing and successful relationship with Intel from the very beginning. Now, our new Aptio V IntelMfpSupport eModule and MegaRAC BMC Firmware Option Pack featuring lntel Memory Resilience Technology support are a simple and effective way for OEMs and ODMs to add enhanced DDRAM failure prediction capabilities into their designs and deliver the improved RAS and SLAs that their customers demand.”

“Improving server uptime and lowering TCO is a core component of our mission to support the data center and cloud services ecosystems,” said Jeff Klaus, General Manager, Data Center Management Solutions Group at Intel. “AMI’s distribution and support for Intel Memory Resilience Technology in its Aptio V UEFI and MegaRAC BMC firmware solutions will help data center operators focus on delivering differentiated services and help avoid costly, disruptive memory failure-related downtime.”

For more information on the Aptio V IntelMfpSupport eModule and MegaRAC BMC Firmware Option Pack featuring Intel Memory Resilience Technology capabilities, please call 1-800-828-9264 to speak with an AMI expert or contact us via ami.com/contact.

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CVE is an international, community-based effort that maintains a community-driven, open data registry of vulnerabilities. The CVE IDs assigned through the registry enable program stakeholders to rapidly discover and correlate vulnerability information used to protect systems against attacks. The CVE Program currently has 140 CNAs in 24 countries, globally across technologies and services.

TianoCore is a community-supported open source implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), developed and promoted by the UEFI Forum, a non-profit industry standards body responsible for developing, managing and promoting UEFI specifications. TianoCore represents a modern and cross-platform firmware implementation for the UEFI and UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specifications, which has ultimately evolved into other open source projects under the TianoCore community. AMI is a founding member and promoter of the UEFI Forum, holding a seat on the Board of Directors and contributing to its formation from its inception.

The acceptance of TianoCore as a CNA by the CVE Program means that it will be able to issue CVEs for vulnerabilities affecting TianoCore or EDK-II source. The CVE Program has added TianoCore to its list of CNA participants, available on its website at https://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html#cna_participants. This acceptance will also help to streamline the work of the TianoCore Infosec Group, which documents the community’s findings on known vulnerabilities and security issues at https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Reporting-Security-Issues.

As part of this announcement, AMI will participate in a coordinating role together with other industry leaders in BIOS and UEFI firmware as well as Intel® Corporation. For over a decade, AMI engineers have donated time and their combined years of firmware development expertise to help with open source vulnerabilities originating from TianoCore or EDK-II. In this role, AMI and the other participating companies are granted the authority to request a CVE on behalf of TianoCore, both for the project or any other OSS project that consumes TianoCore projects or code.

“As firmware security and trust become an increasingly important area of cybersecurity focus, we are grateful to AMI for the role it has played in driving the acceptance of TianoCore as a CVE Numbering Authority with the CVE Program,” said Beverly Alvarez, Lenovo PSIRT Program Manager and member of the CVE Board. “Their leadership, together with all of the leading names in the BIOS/UEFI space, underscores the importance that each of these organizations see in supporting standardized, industry-wide terminology for the naming and classifications of all types of vulnerabilities.”

“AMI is extremely pleased to have played a role in the acceptance of TianoCore as a CVE Numbering Authority by the CVE Program,” said Eric Johnson, Managing Engineer for Software and Security Services at AMI. “Over the years, AMI has strengthened its commitment both to firmware security leadership and to deeper participation in relevant open source software (OSS) projects, and today’s announcement is one of the results of that effort, something of which all AMI contributors can be very proud,” he added.

Stefano Righi, Vice President of Global Software, Security Engineering & Services and AMI’s representative on the UEFI Board of Directors, added that “this achievement is the culmination of over 15 years of contribution by AMI to UEFI, with an ever-increasing focus on the security of firmware implementation based on the UEFI Specification. With the granting of CVE Numbering Authority for TianoCore, in addition to the ability to specify security features AMI can now contribute to the security of the entire firmware development lifecycle – monitoring the ecosystem of released products and identifying mitigations for new vulnerabilities detected by security researchers.”

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