After the Windows 11 reveal, PC users are learning a lot about a security chip called TPM 2.0, which is a necessary requirement to run the next-generation OS.
(Credit: Microsoft) To run Windows 11, you may need to tinker with some PC settings you rarely ever see. On Thursday, Microsoft introduced Windows 11, and revealed the OS actually requires the PC to be installed with a relatively unknown security chip, called the Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM). The technology is designed to securely store your login information on the machine. However, the TPM chip isn’t always on by default. You’ll have to restart your PC and go into your machine’s BIOS settings to trigger it, which can require some digging to find the TPM function. The extra steps are bound to confuse consumers, especially those who know little about computers, and have never entered their PC’s BIOS settings before. PC users with older machines are also out of luck.
