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AMD's Dormant Feature.

A few past comments:

The biggest single difference between TCPA and Palladium, according to Strongin, is that in Palladium, "trusted processing" is taking place on the main CPU.

AMD's Strongin said its Palladium component was done entirely in-house, and the development was "fairly mature". He would not say when the chip would be brought to market, however. "We'll be there when we're needed to be," Strongin said. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1167276,00.asp

C/Net has confirmed that Athlon 64 and Opteron owners will get a little security bonus with Windows XP Service Pack 2. SP2 will reportedly activate a dormant feature in AMD's 64-bit CPUs that helps to protect against buffer overrun exploits:

All AMD64 processors, including AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 processors shipped in 2003, are enabled with AMD's Enhanced Virus Protection for the upcoming Windows XP SP2. AMD64 processors are currently supported by more than 1000 global OEMS and hardware and software companies. Windows XP SP2 is currently in beta and is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2004.