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Re:Microsoft might be interested in buying AMD by zanny on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:39PM (#9807044)
None of them have shown any desire to support open firmware. Intel makes SSDs, Wifi cards, CPUs, and motherboard chipsets that all have binary blob firmware you cannot audit or trust.

AMD really only makes GPUs with blobs, and that is probably more in the ATI legacy than anything. They have been pretty good about coreboot support of their vanilla chipsets for years, even if it is usually delayed several months to a year post release.

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Re:Microsoft might be interested in buying AMD by pgeorgi on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @04:15PM (#9808139)
current gen AMD chipsets require binary components on the CPU ("Binary PI") for RAM init, like Intel. And like Intel, they now have a separate CPU running signed code (Platform Security Processor, ARM based).
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