Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[wavedreamer]

Blue,

I tried to point out to you that TPM's 1.2 and 2.0 are being used in Servers around the world to secure the hypervisors that enable virtualization technology that powers "Cloud Computing" in those very large data centers that you read about. You know the ones that AWS/Facebook/Google/IBM/Microsft etc. have developed and continues to grow.

Wave does not develop products for that market.

Wave is exclusively in the Microsoft Win 7, 8 and 10 PC's/Laptops/tablets and not in any mobile phones.

Microsoft starting with Windows 10 demands the TPM on any Windows 10 certified device. Microsoft uses and believes in the TCG and TPM ecosystem. All the Open Source OS's now support the TPM you can google it I'm tied of posting it as very few understand it anyway.

I know you know all this as you have been exposed to it for longer than I have.

Just because Wave does not reap many financial revenues with their products does not mean the TPM and what it was developed to do is a failure. The TPM 1.2 is going to be replaced by the TPM 2.0 over time. Microsoft developed the capability to have a Firmware TPM run inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and hold several patents around that capability. It allows the TPM capability to run on small form factor devices (sensors) that are to small to hold a discrete TPM chip. SED's continue to evolve with the new OPAL standards just released. The TCG released the TPM Mobile specification a little over a year ago.

Will Wave ever benefit form all those TPM's in the wild? I gave up guessing years ago and as the SP shows nobody believes so, the shares are nothing more than a "Lottery Ticket" at this point JMO.

Concerning the Mobile phone space only Microsoft WIN phone 8 & 10 and Boeing Black phones have the TPM in them to date. Will that change one day beats me and Apple still shuns the TCG. AJMHO

And yes there is no shortage of proprietary cyber security solutions that are marketed and do not use the TPM, but keep in mind the TPM is based on open standards where other competing solutions are not so vender lock in is always a concern.