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>>foodst+(OP)
I've always thought this was just Microsoft's copy of Google Titan and Apple's T2. And as others have pointed out, there's a lot of overlap with what a TPM can already do.

The main thing that comes to mind for me is that since this is integrated into the CPU itself, now 'things' can be strongly and directly tied to the CPU instead of a separate TPM or some collection of hardware identifiers. Was this already possible on x86? My mind immediately went to "this will be used for tighter DRM"; I feel like content owners would like this a whole lot.

>>saxonw+Hg
If you have an AMD system then there's a decent chance that it's already running a TPM stack on the on-die Platform Security Processor. Pluton isn't really any more tightly integrated, it just means the TPM stack isn't running on the same core as a bunch of other random platform things.