China releases ‘UBIOS’ standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China’s domestic computing goals

China has worked for years to further separate its computing progress from the United States and its tech companies. Today heralds a major development to this end, as the Global Computing Consortium has announced the “UBIOS” global standard, a new replacement for UEFI and BIOS. Fast Technology reports that the GCC’s new standard is a rebuilding of BIOS firmware from the ground up, bypassing UEFI development entirely.

UBIOS, or “Unified Basic Input/Output System”, is a firmware standard to replace BIOS…