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Re:Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture by qayxc on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:41PM (#27611482)
It means >110 new devices per living human being.

That can't indeed be good.

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Re:Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture by shard on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:19PM (#27611801)
I don't think it's as bad as that statement implies. It's not all smartphones or laptops or TVs or cars. A large number of those devices would be things like smartcards, LED light bulbs, USB cables, ID tags for shipping containers: tiny, low-to-no-power devices, if what you are concerned about is large amounts of electronic waste.
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Re:Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:48PM (#27612081)
True if you look at processors in general. I'm not sure it's true of Arm-9 processors, though. I think they're a bit overpowered for a LED light bulb, a USB cable, or an ID tag.
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Re:Arm Introduces Its Confidential Compute Architecture by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:05PM (#27611693)
Not necessarily. A new car can have 100+ processors in it (though I don't know how many of them would be Arm-9). One CPU != one device.
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