The Microsoft Pluton Processor

This reads like a giant fluff piece about what is probably going to be a very anti-consumer, anti-free-speech, DRM heavy chip that MS want to popularise as an alternative to the (still hated) TPM.

Why else would they design it for the xbox, of all things? [It's not going to be for stopping speculative execution attacks in a cloud server! It's going to stop you running custom software.]

"The Pluton security processor ... providing a secure identity for the CPU" - and let me guess, this cpu identity becomes a "required" telemetry data point for... security reasons :(

Reminds me of the Pentium III cpu-id privacy-busting "feature".