http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci838639,00.html

Palladium is a plan from Intel, AMD, and Microsoft to build security into personal computers and servers at the microprocessor level. Assuming that enough users buy computers with Palladium capabilities, each user may now for the first time be able to effectively filter out spam, ensure that only authorized programs can ever be run by the computer, and encrypt the data in your computer so that it can’t be meaningfully read or altered by anyone else. Palladium would also enable new forms of digital rights management for content distributors.

Intel and AMD are currently working on the microprocessor. Microsoft may include support for the new security-enhanced processor as part of its next major operating system version in 2004. Bill Gates is said to consider Palladium a significant direction in its Trustworthy Computing strategy.

…total codswallop if you ask me; the stuff about SPAM is both incorrect and implausible – you will still get SPAM, although it’ll be SPAM from someone who has a Palladium-enabled system.

How can they / Palladium possibly promise to distingush SPAM from an e-mail from your Aunt Vera who STILL WRITES ALL HER E-MAILS IN CAPITAL LETTERS?

It’s bollocks.