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* Wave Systems offers a broad range of Client- and Server-software, which runs on all TPM chip-sets. For instance, this software is pre-installed on several models from Dell and Gateway.

* [[Microsoft]]s operating systems [[Microsoft Windows Vista|Windows Vista]] and [[Microsoft Windows 7|Windows 7]] as well as Microsoft Windows Server starting from [[Microsoft Windows Server 2008|Windows Server 2008]] use the chip in conjunction with the included disk encryption software named [[BitLocker Drive Encryption|Bitlocker]].

* In 2006, with the introduction of the first Macintosh's models with Intel- processors ([[Apple–Intel transition|Intel-Switch]]), [[Apple]] started to ship Mac'sMacs with TP-ModulesTPMs. TheApple actualnever modelsprovided 2009-2011 doesn't hold that TPM's anymore.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} There exists no suchan (official) driver, frombut Apple.there Onlywas a Portport under GPL available.<ref>Amit Singh: ''[http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter10/tpm/ Trusted Computing for Mac OS X]''</ref> In 2009, Apple stopped shipping TPMs.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

But there are also hybrid types, e.g. where the TPM-Modul is integrated into the [[Ethernet]]-Chip as on ([[Broadcom]]) while the software which runs „on-top“ is based on Infineon.