(U)EFI or (Unified) Extensible Firmware Interface is a specification for x86, x86-64, ARM, and Itanium platforms that defines a software interface between the operating system and the platform firmware/BIOS. The original EFI was developed in the mid-1990s by Intel for use developing firmware/BIOS for Itanium platforms. In 2005 Intel transitioned the specification to a new working group called the