Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by surajrmal on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:31PM
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It would be fair to mention that TrustZone, the equivalent technology, is built into the cores/ISA. They also do distribute software related to the TrustZone, albeit not a full TEE solution.
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by monocasa on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:38PM
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TrustZone is more like x86 System Management Mode than the ME or PSP.
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by sweden on Friday August 17, 2018 @01:38PM
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TrustZone is not an equivalent technology to ME/PSP. TrustZone is a technology for providing hardware isolation and ME/PSP are co-processors that manage the entire CPU socket (the Ryzens and the i9s)
Intel and AMD sell an entire System-on-a-Chip disguised as a CPU processor. Their CPU is much more than a CPU core: they contain an entire system in there.
If you want to make a comparison, it is more correct to compare the Snapdragon and the Exynos chips to the off-the-shelves CPUs that Intel and AMD sell.
Arm only sells technologies that enable other companies to create a final product, it doesn't impose those kind of "management systems" and binary blobs.