AMD strongly passed the position in the segment of high-performance desktop processors, but the company can regain lost with the debut of solutions based on Zen architecture . It is known that Zen carriers in small quantities for testing will be made in the first quarter, while mass production AMD will move in 2017.
According to the site TechFrog citing knowledgeable sources, processors Zen can not work with system software Coreboot. This is due to the bankruptcy of one of the main partners AMD and technology developers, the company Sage Electronic Engineering.
Coreboot used as an open alternative BIOS and UEFI proprietary, used by most of today's personal computers. In particular, Coreboot can be found in the Chromebook and school computers, OLPC, as well as some other computers models .