When Dell Computer announced last month that it would begin shipping notebook computers incorporating a chip to make the units more secure, it sent analysts scurrying to their calculators. That’s because Dell’s inclusion of “trusted computing” hardware into its machines would be giving the technology a big boost in the coming year. According to the latest estimates from IDC, shipments of computers with Trusted Platform
Modules (TPMs) will more than double this year over last, to 20 million from
8 million.
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Computers with Security Chips Poised for Takeoff
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 17, 2005 08:05 AMWhen Dell Computer announced last month that it would begin shipping notebook computers incorporating a chip to make the units more secure, it sent analysts scurrying to their calculators. That’s because Dell’s inclusion of “trusted computing” hardware into its machines would be giving the technology a big boost in the coming year. According to the latest estimates from IDC, shipments of computers with Trusted Platform
Modules (TPMs) will more than double this year over last, to 20 million from
8 million.