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AMD will reinstate Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) on non-PRO Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs via a BIOS update in July, following community feedback after the feature was silently removed in an earlier firmware update.

AMD has quietly removed Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) from consumer Ryzen CPUs via newer AGESA firmware, potentially leaving users vulnerable to physical attacks, while AMD engineers have gone silent on the matter.

The article discusses how agentic AI may shift the computing focus back to CPUs from GPUs, citing OpenAI's CFO and Ark Invest's CEO. It argues that inference for agents involves orchestration and general-purpose tasks that CPUs handle better.

Hugging Face shares community hardware statistics showing the distribution of GPUs, CPUs, and Apple Silicon among its users.