There's always new chips coming, Sure AMD will release K8L, but intel have Penryn waiting in the background, thats a 45nm process, a slightly updated architecture (Core 2 technology, but full SSE4 added. CPU ID claims Core2 has SSE4, but intel consider Core2 to be SSE3+) It will also have a 6meg cache instead of 4, and possibly some other tweaks too. Probably has Trusted Execution too, but its a security tool, not specifically a DRM tool.
Its supposed to allow programs to decide if they wish to allow other programs to interract with them, by allowing each application within its own virtual space. (It doesnt mean that microsoft will code windows to be unable to load 'dodgy' software. But it does mean that if you have a virus on your computer, and you log into your 'EBank', its far less likely that the virus would be able to scan the ebank system and access your login details etc. Well thats the theory anyway.
Intel also have another gem hidden away codenamed 'Yorkfield' Its supposed to be a true native quad core, with 12mb of shared L2 cache, but you'll probably need a bearlake chipset motherboard (Im guessing bearlake is going to be the replacement for the 975 'enthusiasts' chipset used by boards like BadAxe)
Its supposed to allow programs to decide if they wish to allow other programs to interract with them, by allowing each application within its own virtual space. (It doesnt mean that microsoft will code windows to be unable to load 'dodgy' software. But it does mean that if you have a virus on your computer, and you log into your 'EBank', its far less likely that the virus would be able to scan the ebank system and access your login details etc. Well thats the theory anyway.
Intel also have another gem hidden away codenamed 'Yorkfield' Its supposed to be a true native quad core, with 12mb of shared L2 cache, but you'll probably need a bearlake chipset motherboard (Im guessing bearlake is going to be the replacement for the 975 'enthusiasts' chipset used by boards like BadAxe)
