Like it matters. Do you really think that the government would really allow Intel and AMD to sell CPUs that didn't have tiny transmitters in
Brian Dunbar wrote: them?
Your CPU is actually transmitting every instruction it executes to the satellites.
That's a subtle bit of humor, right?
Whenever this truth is repeated, first revealed here in 1992 by a person who worked at Intel in its early days when it was desperate for government contracts, it is taken to be humorous. The detailed description of the chip broadcasting technology was once retrievable from the cypherpunks archives but the earliest archives have disappeared, possibly with the intent of erasing information on this very topic. The original anonymous explained that Intel was going to be withdrawn as a public company and do only black work for governments, not only the US. That that is likely to have happened except that a public shell was allowed to continue and succeed as a cover -- early investors were induced to keep this quiet with bountiful payouts, among them former Intel employees. What remains of this story on the Internet is a bowderlized version of the original truth, sometimes commingled with Tempest apochryphia -- Tempest the fountain head of dissimulation about electromagnetic transmitting technology more fancifully described than told the truth about. As a corollary AMD is an illusory chip fabricator, set up and fed by Intel to give the appearance of competition. There are others to delude foreign customers into trusting their homegrown.