The last version to be published directly by vendors was 2.3 on August 12, 1998. It introduced 16-bit plug-and-play functions used to access the structures from Windows 95. Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on Maby American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation. Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996. SMBIOS was originally known as Desktop Management BIOS ( DMIBIOS), since it interacted with the Desktop Management Interface (DMI).
The DMTF released the version 3.4.0 of the specification on August 20, 2020. The DMTF estimates that two billion client and server systems implement SMBIOS. The SMBIOS specification is produced by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a non-profit standards development organization. This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the computer. In computing, the System Management BIOS ( SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. System Management BIOS StatusĬommon Information Model (CIM), Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM), Redfish
