AMD Advances openSIL Initiative Despite Minor Delays, Support for "Phoenix" and "Turin" CPUs Coming Soon

[AleksandarK]

AMD's openSIL project, aimed towards open CPU silicon initialization code, continues progressing despite a slight delay in its development timeline. The initiative, which will eventually replace the current AGESA system across AMD's client and server processors, received a new update. The company initially targeted the end of 2024 to release proof-of-concept code for Phoenix client SoCs and Turin server hardware. However, as we move through the first quarter of 2025, AMD has acknowledged a slight deviation from this schedule. In a recent statement, AMD representatives assured the developer community that work continues steadily on both Phoenix and Turin proof-of-concept releases.

"We are hard at work preparing the Phoenix and Turin POC's for public release," stated an AMD representative, emphasizing that these releases will serve as sample code previewing future production-worthy implementations. The company clarified that these initial releases are not intended for production environments. The delay has minimal impact on AMD's plan, as the primary goal remains focused on achieving full production readiness with the upcoming Zen 6 architecture. The openSIL project promises to enhance Coreboot support and provide developers with full access to low-level system components. Though limited to select reference motherboards, the proof-of-concept releases will serve as the first milestones in AMD's journey toward more open hardware solutions.



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[Dr. Dro]

This is excellent news... I have no love for AGESA whatsoever. I hope their progress is smooth.

 

[_roman_]

I'll come back when there are facts and It is available to the consumer. Zen6 is most likely unobtainable as of now.

It's nice that the article mentions not available coreboot to most any consumer mainboards. I thought about libreboot the first time reading the text.

As long my current ASUS or my previous MSI mainboard comes with crapware with security holes which are not fixed in a timely matter that AMD announcement is just hot air without actions. Important yes - but it needs execution. It need now purchasable products and better security which in my point of view amd does not really care.

 

[Nhonho]

Intel and AMD should develop new CPUs that don't lose as much performance with Windows VBS enabled.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Intel and AMD should develop new CPUs that don't lose as much performance with Windows VBS enabled.

Fundamentally impossible, considered that VBS means running Windows under a hypervisor and that will always invariably incur an overhead penalty

 

[cal5582]

Microsoft should hire a QA department.

 

[Nhonho]

Fundamentally impossible, considered that VBS means running Windows under a hypervisor and that will always invariably incur an overhead penalty

Or a CPU that doesn't lose as much performance with Windows VBS enabled than current CPUs.