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Much_Writing_7575 t1_j6bvyy9 wrote

Reply to comment by dontshowmegarbage in Microsoft to Stop Sell Selling Windows 10 Downloads on January 31st by ObreroJimenez

A TPM chip is a physical piece of hardware.

If your computer doesn't have it, no amount of changing things in the BIOS will fix that.

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major_cupcakeV2 t1_j6c0goj wrote

All newer CPUs have integrated TPM modules, those are just baked into the CPU itself. Intel markets it as Intel PTT, AMD markets it as fTPM

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drysart t1_j6c4srg wrote

> A TPM chip is a physical piece of hardware.

Not anymore. It's integrated right into the CPU nowadays; and especially since we're talking about "gaming" motherboards, we're also talking about "gaming" CPUs (i.e., not bargain basement stuff), and every gaming CPU sold in at least the past 5-8 years has it.

And if that's too vague for you, then there's a simpler statement: every CPU officially supported by Windows 11 has the requisite TPM built in. (Most BIOSes shipped until very very recently disabled it by default though, so if a hardware compatibility tool tells you that you don't have a TPM despite having a supported CPU, you just need to boot into the BIOS and enable it.)

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