Intel donated their original EFI standard to the Unified EFI Forum for further development in summer 2005. >The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum or

Intel donated their original EFI standard to the Unified EFI Forum for further development in summer 2005. >The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum or UEFI Forum is an alliance between several leading technology companies to modernize the booting process. The board of directors includes representatives from thirteen "Promoter" companies: AMD, American Megatrends, ARM, Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., IBM, Insyde Software, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Phoenix Technologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_EFI_Forum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_EFI_Forum Apple started their adoption of EFI before the UEFI was a thing.