Pluton is a security chip Microsoft, AMD, and Intel co-developed. It's built into the CPU (not on the motherboard like classic TPM) and is firmware-updatable from the cloud.
What this means: Pluton-equipped CPUs have a cryptographically guaranteed unique identifier you can't spoof at all without changing the physical CPU. Anti-cheats are getting an HWID anchor of an entirely new level.
AMD Ryzen 6000+ and Intel 13th-gen ship with Pluton. By 2026 we expect 80% of new PCs to include it. The world will become much harder to anonymise.
Bright side: Pluton is disabled by default in many BIOSes. If you don't need BitLocker / Microsoft Hello / corporate VPNs, you can simply turn it off. Then you fall back to the classic HWID baseline.
We're working on Pluton-aware HWID change for v4.0+ — full compatibility, automatic detection, and proper handling. Public beta expected for 2026.