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I'm not well versed on the reasons, but I see that AI is mentioned frequently when TPM is brought up in Windows 11.. probably because of that new rewind feature that's pretty much surveillance baked into your pc, they probably need that to be ultra secure.
It seems like maybe they have done this because it's maybe necessary, but only for features that no one wanted anyways.
There should be a choice and a warning if you don't have TPM, along with disabling invasive "features" that could have it's data stolen, otherwise they are signing off on what is probably thousands of tons of ewaste.
I believe there are ways to get around this requirement, but then you are running in an unsupported use case and I wouldn't be surprised if they brick your OS randomly one day with an unrelated (or maybe related) patch.
Every cpu for over a decade has had surveillance built in.
Likely and I'm skeptical of their (amd/intels) management software running directly on our processors too, though unfortunately there is nothing we can do about that until we can use open source chips like RISC-V (which wont be any time soon).
Do you know if anyone has ever been able to verify the backdoor exists and is taking our info/spying for definite? Ie has seen a packet with suspicious origin/destination with data that wasn't manually sent anywhere leaving their network?
tl;dr we can't do anything about amd/intel management backends possibly spying, but we can do something about microsoft very opening spying on us (alternatives exist).