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One technology breakthrough for ARM over x86(which has little room left for improvement at this point), could be a watershed moment for the chip manufacturers
by blackflame7000 8y ago
One technology breakthrough for ARM over x86(which has little room left for improvement at this point), could be a watershed moment for the chip manufacturers
- 0xcde4c3db 8y agoThis stuff doesn't exist because of a particular vendor or ISA; it's a mainstream feature for modern application platforms. Many ARM systems achieve similar ends through a kind of hypervisor / shadow OS that can't readily be disabled by the device owner [1]. [1] https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone
- rhn_mk1 8y agoDRM schemes are explicitly listed and talked about as one of the 3 applications of TrustZone in the official docs.
- clhodapp 8y agoUnfortunately, enabling this stuff seems to be the deal with the devil you have to do in order to become a mainstream platform. I highly doubt that ARM will supplant x86 without also offering something that is functionally equivalent to ME.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoWhy? Few care about 4k optical discs on a PC.
- pvg 8y agox86(which has little room left for improvement at this point) That's exactly what IBM, Motorola and Apple said when they got together to promote a new architecture once. In 1992.