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AMD Opteron to support Palladium

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the coming-soon-to-a-cpu-near-you dept.

Jim Norton writes "This article is just a reminder that AMD is just as guilty as Intel in supporting TCPA / Palladium. AMD has announced that Opteron will be compatible with the Palladium Initiative and that AMD is part of the 'Trusted Computing Alliance'."

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    1. Re:Slashdot Beatitudes by sdack · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hey, are drugs on Slashdot allowed??

  2. Now what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well if I can't use intel or amd who's chips can I use. Slashdot guide me...

  3. I wish they did more research... by Shadow99_1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    AMD has stated their plans for DRM many times and in those statements they mention that their next generation of CPU's won't feature true DRM functions. On the other hand their chipsets will...

    This whole thing came up days ago in the cpu/hardware sites & AMD had the inquirer toss the trash out (they had picked up the story from The Age). Apparently that was some creative writing on the part of The Age with that story.

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    we are all invisible unless we choose otherwise
  4. Re:Just Another Reason by asv108 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know there is a workaround, look at my fucking journal!