While announcing Windows 11, Microsoft made a very controversial move to change hardware requirements significantly. The ...

Plus, there are a lot of new chipsets added to the list of Windows 11-compatible motherboards too. Asus says that the new BIOS will automatically enable TPM on AMD systems or Platform Trust ...

In most cases, the TPM chip is mounted directly on a PC’s motherboard, but you can also add TPM to a computer by installing an expansion card. The TPM standard itself was developed by a group of ...

This means that older PCs that are capable of running Windows 11 are unsupported since they lack TPM 2.0 which has only begun appearing on PC motherboards in the last few years. The hardware is ...

including those without a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0. This change expands the potential user base for Windows 11 but also brings up concerns regarding system compatibility and security.

But the easiest and cheapest way out of the problem—an upgrade to Windows 11, which is still free for Windows 10 PCs that can run it—still remains out of reach for many active PCs because of Windows ...