Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
by sneak on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:58AM
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It's not just Apple that's shipping AMD and Intel chips with a special security coprocessor (ME/PSP) embedded in the CPU that only boots signed, unmodifiable code: everyone in that marketshare table is doing so.
What OS does the main CPU run? Usually the one from Microsoft, the vendor with specific state-of-the-art expertise in locking down the platforms on which they operate stores (xbox).
Apple is simply ahead of the curve here; Microsoft (and the entirety of the PC market they run on) will get there soon enough.
I hope you're right and I'm totally wrong, but everything I see with regards to platform stores, DRM, and "cryptographic integrity of software" as it's termed leads me to believe that in a relatively short period of time (10 years, +/-5) basically nothing cheap and performant off the shelf will run open OSes or common software without significant difficulty.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...