AMD meanwhile has fTPM baked into its CPUs from Ryzen 2500 onwards. You won’t find it called fTPM though as Intel brands it as Platform Trust Technology, or PTT for short. All of Intel’s CPUs from the 6th Generation Intel Core series have firmware TPM onboard, while non-K Intel CPUs from the 4th and 5th generation have it too. Instead, what most people will have is a firmware TPM (fTPM).

In fact, most people who have custom built PCs won’t have a physical TPM module attached to their motherboards. Here’s the thing though: I don’t have a TPM 2.0 module. Switching those on meant that I was able to pass PC Health App’s Windows 11 test. Indeed, after going through my BIOS settings, it turns out that the culprit is Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 not being turned on by default. I personally tried out Microsoft’s PC Health App tool and it told me that my desktop wouldn’t be able to run Windows 11-despite my CPU being an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, one that Microsoft themselves list as compatible. So does this mean that, for desktop PC users at least, we’ll have to buy one of these TPM 2.0 modules to attach onto our systems?

Requiring the TPM 2.0 elevates the standard for hardware security by requiring that built-in root-of-trust,” – David Weston, Director of Enterprise and OS Security, Microsoft A TPM module. “PCs of the future need this modern hardware root-of-trust to help protect from both common and sophisticated attacks like ransomware and more sophisticated attacks from nation-states.

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