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Intel says its next generation of processors will have embedded electronic certificates in them, a feature that Microsoft and other software makers can use to build stronger security and anti-piracy software.
Code named LaGrande, the anti-piracy technology will protect memory and storage as well, so data can be routed directly to peripherals without traveling through the PCI bus. For example, on PCs today, data that is destined for the sound card must first go through the PCI bus. By design, the PCI bus is completely accessible by software, so programmers can write software that intercepts the data on its way to the sound card. Once the data destined for the sound card has been captured, users can easily make unauthorized digital copies of the content.
...Source: HighBeam Research, Intel To Embed Certificates into Next-Gen CPUs.