Hi, It has been a while since I posted. Today I have bad news. Apparently, M$ has been working with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to place a new type of TPM into their CPUs, APUs, and SoCs. It's already inside of the new XBox processors. It runs firmware which is, according to M$, produced by them.
Here's an official link, and a tech site link for those of you who don't want to visit M$'s site.
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-microsoft-pluton...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16269/microsoft-pluton-hardware-security-comi...
I've done some research googling, but at this stage the data on what sort of access this new processor has and what it can do is anyones best guess.
It sounds like the firmware might have unrestricted Internet access: "One of the other major security problems solved by Pluton is keeping the system firmware up to date across the entire PC ecosystem."
I hope I'm panicking unnecessarily... David