Replies to post #115988 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[rachelelise]

AWK

In some way, shape or form, this action is somehow tied to whatever Infineon was able or unable to deliver to their OEMs. In the past, I think wave has been on the short end becuase they weren't able to deliver the goods when they were needed. We might be on the positive side of this result this time.

[1stnflight]

Awk: HP a welcome govt/entp alt. to Dell

Broadcom is encouraging because IT purchasers in gov't and public enterprise with a history of buying Dell have been switching to HP. Two people, a computer consultant/professional speaker (audience of approx 40,000 influential decision makers annually) and a National Guard IT person, have stopped recommending and buying Dell because Dell has been having widespread hard drive failures and other issues in the past year or two. As positive as all Dell news with Wave, especially this weeks Latitude and Precision notebook PR (go to Dells website and see the Wave and its logo on the 3D Latitude demo under Security) until Dell increases quality we need to be in HPs box.

HP currently ships with TPM 1.2 on Broadcom NICs and HP ProtectTools Security Manager Software was likley written by Infineon. In the future HP with Brdcom TPM will ship with Wave ESC/CSP and ProtectTools, or only Wave. With this announcement I am thinking the latter unless PT is used for nonTPM functions

Would like Lenovo to be next.

All the best,

1st

[New Wave]

Awk, I couldn't agree with you more, that this Broadcom news is indicative of positive developments forthcoming from HP.

I also agree with your post #115955 that Infineon will have no choice at this late stage but to either get out of the TPM software business and incorporate Wave's ESC and CSP or loose their market share of TPM chip business.

Bottom line is that today's news implies a lot more than just Wave and Broadcom. The bigger picture implicates HP and Infineon. Then there are others such as ASUS who are supplied by Broadcom.

[Wildman262]

Awk, I think that HP will get on board with Wave by the time Vista enterprise ships. My hope is that it is before that.