SAMU in Wichita

alyarb

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The slides here

http://www.donanimhaber.com/islemci...-28nm-islemcileri-hakkinda-resmi-detaylar.htm

mention a capability I've never seen before by means of what AMD calls a "Secure Asset Management Unit," which I likewise have never heard before. They describe it as "offloading x86 transcription," and then another line uses the word "decryption" of what they call "premium content." So I assume this is at the front of the hardware accelerated video that passes to the radeon cores some h.264 that is closer to metal for them than whatever they used to use, but that could be wrong. I'm really not sure what they have.

Then they have a slide that says SAMU was absent in Ontario and is now present in Wichita, so does that mean most APU's such as Llano and Sandy Bridge also have this capability, and that it was merely omitted in Ontario, or is this a new capability about to debut in Wichita?