TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by monocasa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:52PM (#26663859)

Xboxes and PlayStations have cryptographic chains of trust going back to their on die boot ROM. You can't just pull it out and use it on another Xbox or PlayStation, much less use them for generic computation.

I think the Xbox One is the first console to have no unsigned code execution at all during it's lifetime.

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by qball on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:32PM (#26666349)

You can trivially run whatever code you wanted to if you seized the signing keys; I suspect that in such a "collect all the general-purpose computers for general-purpose computing things" that would be the first order of business.

Not that the government doesn't already have copies, of course.

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by monocasa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:49PM (#26667239)

I guess I didn't read a .gov mandate in what the parent was suggesting.

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