It is non-volatile and stored on a small memory chip so that its settings are saved and stored even after powering off your PC. There is no need to install the BIOS as it comes preinstalled on all ...

The DiskOnChip was sophisticated enough to present a proper BIOS signature so its own BIOS was loaded on the PC’s power up sequence. When you consider how little circuitry is involved ...

Often, the EC firmware is stored on the same SPI flash chip as the BIOS – other times, there’s a separate external or on-chip flash, in which case, you typically have an UART bootloader you ...