Sanjoy Maity, CEO of AMI, presented AMI's approach to meeting the scalability demands of rack-scale AI infrastructure through open-source firmware at OCP Global Summit 2025. The talk covers the complexity of disaggregated AI infrastructure, AMI's strategy of maintaining an unfragmented OpenBMC LTS codebase, and its contributions to OCP's firmware ecosystem. AMI invests ~54,000 engineering hours annually to merge, test, and maintain a unified, OCP SAFE-compliant firmware base serving ODM, hyperscaler, and enterprise customers for 10–15 year product lifecycles. OCP CEO George Tchaparian appeared to publicly thank AMI during Q&A, recognizing them as a key open-source partner.

Key Takeaways

• AMI invests ~54,000 engineering hours annually to merge, test, and maintain the OpenBMC-based LTS codebase for ODM customers, addressing 11 distinct upstream fragmentations across kernel, Yocto, U-Boot, OpenBMC core, and silicon-vendor branches.
• AMI has made 334 total contributions to Linux Foundation OpenBMC (115 core, 40 average annual) and leads in Web UI, IPMI, Redfish, KVM, and Test Automation — without fragmenting the upstream project.
• All three of AMI's OCP-accepted open-source products — Aptio CE (boot), MegaRAC CE (management), and Tektagon CE (security root of trust) — are verified OCP SAFE compliant by Tetrel Security.
• The modular DCMHS architecture demonstrated by AMI enables HPM (Host Processor Module) hot-swap across CPU vendors with dynamically built BIOS and BMC, with reference code to be contributed to OCP.
• AMI is positioning open chiplet firmware and rack-scale management (OpenRMC) as its next areas of thought leadership and OCP contribution, with announcements expected at OCP Barcelona.
• OCP CEO George Tchaparian publicly credited AMI as a "perfect partner" and affirmed that "hardware without firmware is nothing" during the session Q&A.