Intel announced its new dual-core Intel Pentium D processors and 945 chipsets, and combination thereof by the names of Lyndon and Anchor Creek.
However, sources indicate that being dual-core is not the major feature of the new technologies. Guess what is? DRM. Yes, the one that might very well allow the worst dream of Treacherous Computing to come true, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four novel merge with reality. To make things even more interesting, Intel refused to make any official comments "for security purposes". I guess what they want is to have everyone convert to the new platform, and then tell us, 'oh, btw, your computers are going to stop working in a few months unless you install one of the certified OSs from the US authorities'. 2002: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5858 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html etc 2005: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=13912 http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23548 http://digg.com/hardware/DRM_Embedded_In_New_Intel_Chips http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/1718200&tid=118&tid=155&tid=137 websites: http://www.againsttcpa.com/ Finally, here is Intel press-release, which for obvious reasons does not mention anything about DRM: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20050526comp.htm Cheers, Constantine.
