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Poor article
This is a poor article if someone just wants to find out quickly what the TCM chip actually is. Basically it is chip integrated onto the motherboard. The chip itself is an embedded computer (with CPU, RAM, Firmware, encryption keys). As it is self-contained in one chip, it is considered a 'secure environment' from where encryption/authentication can take place (e.g. protected any malware that may be present on the computer's OS). The chip can only be communicated with using it's API; crucially, the build-in encryption keys cannot be read or modified in any way by the OS (or by using any physical method).
