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Old September 12th 20, 08:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default An area where AMD server processors are more secure than Intel,that we pray never comes to desktop!

On 9/12/2020 2:04 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:

If the CPU is locked, then you can't even run tools that can modify
the firmware.


Surely you can if you leave the original cpu in the server, or how do
you ever upgrade the bios?Â* It's a tail wags dog reason for locking the
cpu to the manufacturer.


Well, I think the BIOS is wholly separate from the crypto-key that locks
the processor to the system. If the BIOS comes from the same vendor of
the server, then they would use the same crypto key to upgrade it. So if
there is a single crypto key for the same vendor, then that processor
will always work with that vendor's upgrades.

Yousuf Khan
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