Neowin News Feed for: Pluton

AMD Ryzen 9000, 8000, 7000 CPUs have a vulnerable TPM-Pluton, major firmware fix released

Sayan Sen — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:52:01 +0000

New AMD Ryzen firmware is out which patches a security flaw related to the TPM and Pluton. The vulnerability impacts 9000, 8000, and 7000 series Ryzen CPUs. Read more...

AMD's new chipset driver improves Windows 11/10 app compatibility, Microsoft Pluton support

Sayan Sen — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:12:02 +0000

AMD recently released a new chipset driver which wants to improve application compatibility on Windows 11 and 10, as well as for Microsoft Pluton. Read more...

Lenovo ThinkPad Ryzen 6000 laptops with Microsoft Pluton refuse to run Linux by default

Sayan Sen — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 16:18:01 +0000

Back at CES, Lenovo launched its ThinkPad Z series with Microsoft Pluton powered by Ryzen 6000. However, these new notebooks refuse to run non-Windows OS, like Linux, without firmware tweak. Read more...

These are all the security features coming to Windows 11

Usama Jawad — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:00:07 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled a bunch of security capabilities that are coming to a "future release" of Windows 11. This includes more Pluton PCs, Smart App Control, HVCI, LSA, and lots more. Read more...

Intel looks past Microsoft's Pluton, the TPM-like Windows 11 security chip inside Ryzen 6000

Sayan Sen — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:44:01 +0000

Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt APUs are the first chips in the world to bring Microsoft Pluton support. But despite also being a partner with the Redmond giant, Intel will not support Pluton, for now. Read more...

Lenovo: Microsoft Pluton security chip won't be enabled by default on 2022 ThinkPads

Sayan Sen — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:04:01 +0000

Lenovo has confirmed that its ThinkPad business notebooks for 2022, based on the Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt mobile APUs, will come with the Microsoft Pluton security feature disabled by default. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11 goodies, Exchange Y2K22, and Pluton security

Usama Jawad — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:16:01 +0000

Thanks to the end of the holiday season in the U.S., this was quite an eventful week in the world of Microsoft with news items ranging from CES to Windows 11, to Exchange Server Y2K22 bugs. Read more...

Microsoft Pluton is a new security chip for Windows PCs

Rich Woods — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:24:02 +0000

Today, Microsoft announced Pluton, a new security chip that aims to harden the CPU itself. Microsoft plans to integrate hardware and software on Windows PCs to eliminate attack vectors. Read more...