Replies to post #57491 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[khillo]

Doma-. in other words, Infineon
MUST licence Wave's IP. They have no other choice.

Thank you.

[go-kitesurf]

Doma, that's right, because the CSP is the "bridge" to the TSS (trusted software stack) that talks to the TPM. So for any management software to work with the NTRU TSS, it has to go through the CSP to do it. Since Wave's CSP is the only one that works with the NTRU TSS, Wave's CSP must be used by Infineon, since their CSP only works with the Infineon TSS.

TPM chip --> TSS --> CSP --> all other TPM software

[Wildman262]

Doma, I think this helps your point.

In many aspects we look at the marketplace today as the first phase of Trusted Computing is really complete, in that a number of companies and small companies engaged in the early stages, and Wave has emerged as one of the strongest players in offering a solution that is independent of the individual silicon manufacturers. This allows ultimately our customers, the OEMs and manufacturers of PCs, choice to have some of their machines with one manufacturer’s chip, like an STMicro chip and have other machines with a National Semiconductor chip, to have a consistent software image across their entire line of products. And this is a very typical requirement for the PC industry, as different parts and components are spec’d to either mobile platforms or desktop platforms, or high end or low end platforms.

And so, as the market has developed and more of the silicon vendors have entered the market it’s very important to have a standard layer of software that interoperates across all of the individual chip manufacturers. And Wave today is really the prime leader in supplying that solution to the marketplace.