How did I find out? I certainly did not look it up inside my system, though you can if you know how. I was personally shocked to find out that the PC I've been streaming on Twitch with, the excellent Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel, does have a TPM 2.0 chip and can in fact run Windows 11. In addition, for many enterprise customers, TPMs help facilitate Zero Trust security by providing a secure element for attesting to the health of devices.'Įven if you do have a TPM in your laptop, you might be surprised to know that it's there.

'TPM 2.0,' Weston writes, 'is a critical building block for providing security with Windows Hello and BitLocker to help customers better protect their identities and data. Weston framed the need for such chips a security concern, writing 'it’s been rare to get through a day without reading an account of a new cybersecurity threat.' He then referenced an internal report that found '83 percent of businesses experienced a firmware attack, and only 29 percent are allocating resources to protect this critical layer.'Īnd while you may not run a business off your laptop, Microsoft is arguing that everyone should be protected against such attacks.

On June 25, the day after Windows 11 was revealed, David Weston (Director of Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft) published a blog on (opens in new tab), explaining the need for TPM 2.0 chips. They followed that with the frustrating note that 'If devices in market meet the TPM requirements they can upgrade to Windows 11, if not they will need a new device.' That said, we've heard that some TPMs may need to be enabled in the BIOS, so reach out to your PC's manufacturer for help before you buy a new system.

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