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		paulmd on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core? > nothing on the chip actually implements or understands NVMe pretty sure that's false as well... can an X300 system boot a NVMe drive? I'd assume yes. It does that with a UEFI which lives... where? Oh right, on the chip. Most NVMe SSDs don't provide legacy option roms anymore either.

wtallis on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

> It does that with a UEFI which lives... where? Oh right, on the chip.

No, UEFI is firmware stored on a flash chip on the motherboard, usually connected to the CPU through the LPC bus. CPUs do not have any nonvolatile storage onboard (unless you count eFuses).

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