They know they don't really have to care about the news cycle anymore. The huge tech companies are above such things as consequences from public outrage. No policies are going to hurt them because they have Trump, and no consumer outrage is gonna make them lose money, because they aren't making most of their money from consumers anymore, the make them from the investor cartel circlejerk.

Okay what CPU would you like to buy then?

Intel? I can highly recommend their built in backdoors and self destructing CPUs

Upselling people to their higher end CPUs that still support it

It does cause a performance impact. I have it disabled for that reason. (2%-3%overhead for benchmarking when chasing high scores). Not something you’d notice during normal use.

Physical security is shit. If you rely on this you will eventually get stolen

Reading the article AMD pushed a update and that update removed a feature that was once supported. There was also no mention that the update would remove said feature.

I dont know, but to me its like buying a car with heated seats. Then getting a update pushed, and those seats being disabled with no way to activate them. Or like having your old iphone performance artificially slowed through updates.

The big question is was this accidental in disabling this feature, or was it calculated. And if it was calculated why was there no announcement. The whole thing smells IMO.

Long story short, the hardware supports it, but the software disabled it.

You might not, someone who self hosts sensitive information might, someone developing software might, someone who is into cyber security might.

Not everything is just about you and your specific use case.

Removing features that came with the product, then adding them back as a subscription.