SPIN.......From a straight Shooter.
TPM's form a hardware cornerstone to NGSCB...when you
find something similar in print or on MSFT's site that
says Rainbow's hardware does the same....it won't be
SPIN.....
I would also think that Infineon,Atmel,NSM,& ST Micro
the TPM manufacturers might have something to say along
with the PC OEM's like IBM,HP who decide which bit of
Hardware goes into their PC's or does MSFT decide every
thing??
The TPM 1.2 spec includes a handful of new features to enable the chips to generate multiple keys for various applications and services in a manner that allows the system user to remain anonymous. The updated chips should be available in the second half of 2004.
IBM expects it will have shipped as many as 8 million systems, mainly Thinkpad notebooks, using 1.1 version TPMs by the end of this year. To date, Hewlett-Packard has announced a single model desktop with the 1.1 TPM. Both companies said they see value in moving to the new chips.
The chips form a hardware cornerstone for Microsoft Corp.'s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) that will be built into the next-generation of Windows dubbed Longhorn and expected in 2005. Longhorn will add to the TPM hardware a capability to have a secure execution mode and secure I/O on a desktop PC as well as secure processes on an application by application level.
