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This has been discussed before. Isn't it an optional feature that most people in the industry have pretty much agreed to ignore?
Oh, Assembler joining the rainbow press panic hype train when in lack of things to report on? They got func's for stuffs like that for.... like King Arthur's days or something. TPM, anyone? Can surely be used for DRM stuff. Also - like always with these things - the hype is louder than the actual danger. Like the TPM is kinda used by no one, this might end up rarely used as well.
It's a blogger making a spin out of a feature barely supported. Technically it's a feature built into the GPU of the Intel cpus with onboard gpu. This helps in accelerating content, just like what you find on GPUs.
no source, so im calling bs on this. In future do some real reasearch/fact checking before you post "news"
To the best of my knowledge TPM is actually used by some cryptographic systems and something like it (or is it) is used by Apple for OSX to make sure you can't install it somewhere other than to a machine with a big shiny Apple logo on it. Though someone recently did break into the chip: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/researcher-cracks-trusted-platform-module-security-chip/ If the media hype I'm hearing is remotely accurate and this chip gets around in everything we might see it get used. However there are so many legacy CPUs in existence as well as this company called AMD (who knows what they make!) would prevent anyone from making software that they anticipate being a good seller that requires this functionality.
if it is an instruction set on the CPU then you cannot upgrade any firmware to make it work. Too many different CPU types for this to work until 5 or so years from now when the industry can transition from all the older hardware out there and have a new defacto standard for CPU speed like Core2 seems to be now.
It's not BS, the Sandy Bridge iCore series does have DRM built into them, but it's mainly for movie corps sending movies over the net when they are still in theaters, not really going to effect your everyday users I don't believe. Side note the chips are nasty, I just got a new laptop last Saturday and I'm going to take it back and get a new model Toshiba, or HP when they come out later in the month because they will have the chips and usb 3.0. Hawk
Intel's sandy bridge killswitch appears to have been hacked and now hackers can kill your cpu remotely. Way to go Intel.
the more they tighten their grip the more star systems will slip from their hands. or something along those lines.
You mean like the same way "hackers" turn your machine into part of a botnet? You're too stupid to patch your box, don't run anti-virus and click every ad you ever see within IE6?
