waltc3:

Microsoft has been using ARM in Surface for a long time. IIRC, they even did an OS for an ARM CPU a couple of years back--along with Win8 (which was a terrible idea no one ever asked for!) Many companies have been designing their own ARM CPUs for various uses for a long time--this practice was not invented at

The ARM version of windows isn't dead, only the surface's W8 ARM is, it still evolve and is W10 now... it even exist as a "light" version for embeding computer.

anticupidon:

Not only that, their will impose their Pluto chip into majority of x86 CPU architecture. For better security...

It's just another try to impose something like TPMT, do you remember that W10 was intended to install only on TPMT chipped computer? How many computer have put TPMT in their computer ?

asturur:

Probably a pain to run on linux.

EUFI bios was... now it work as usual. Linux has this particularity to evolve very fast, and there is always someone to have a solution and give it to the "family". "No problemo" about that...

Yeah, I totally forgot about that @rl66 . Good point.

Does it matter anyway? Performance is more than enough for most people no matter the CPU inside...

It almost seems impossible, yet, an inevitability to me that the logical direction for Apple with so much power available is to run W10 software emulated faster than current high-end desktop PCs, due to less overhead (no os on top to deal with) and brute force. With 32-cores, it's feasible. If they go 64-cores, then, it was accomplished already. Next-gen pushes us closer to that "Everything runs everything." future.

asturur:

Seems a large blurry statement, do you have any source to dig deeper?

It's not actually it's ... I almost caught myself and said well-known industry information but here you are asking so... yeah one moment I'll try and get you some info but basically, he's right on the money it's part of an incoming security ecosystem that all excluding Apple & NVIDIA(ARM) have signed onto far as creating a more unified security apparatus for hardware/software layers - the goal is to essentially make things harder to hack. The devil's advocate being break that system, Intel MEI - on steroids (ok hyperbole sure but what kind of comparative do I have to pull from?) How could you miss this on Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Whatever? Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs - Microsoft Security

H83:

Does it matter anyway? Performance is more than enough for most people no matter the CPU inside...

It matter if it is better, more powerfull , less hungry and less expensive... For the moment this is the way it follow. +1 for them.

Kevin Mauro:

It's not actually it's ... I almost caught myself and said well-known industry information but here you are asking so... yeah one moment I'll try and get you some info but basically, he's right on the money it's part of an incoming security ecosystem that all excluding Apple & NVIDIA(ARM) have signed onto far as creating a more unified security apparatus for hardware/software layers - the goal is to essentially make things harder to hack. The devil's advocate being break that system, Intel MEI - on steroids (ok hyperbole sure but what kind of comparative do I have to pull from?) How could you miss this on Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/Whatever? Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs - Microsoft Security

Isn't Azure Security service (including cloud) that were badly hacked last week? And this chip is based on this service? Too bad for them and the article 🙂 Anyway i still use linux as main OS and Windows as secondary.

rl66:

Isn't Azure Security service (including cloud) that were badly hacked last week? And this chip is based on this service? Too bad for them and the article 🙂 Anyway, I still use Linux as the main OS and Windows as secondary.

Nice to see a fellow recognize the SolarWinds alleged Russian infiltration... it's funny to me as in a way they infiltrated the entire system. They completely managed to taint Oriion's update(s) - the "legitimate" channel mind you. Reminded me of what happened to ASUS... with their tool(s)? Of course, that was relatively small-time - still, the concept is similar; almost adds a new meaning to a trojan horse.