The Source schrijft dat Intel onder druk van privacygroeperingen heeft besloten te stoppen met het toevoegen van een processor ID op komende CPU's (Willamette) en daarnaast ook afziet van andere hardware certificaten :
In January 1999, Intel said it would wire a unique ID into each Pentium III chip, but then disabled it after privacy activists began a boycott and a prominent House Democrat denounced the plan.
An Intel management committee, after hearing from marketing, privacy, and engineering representatives who were opposed to the idea, reportedly made the decision not to include similar features in the much-anticipated Willamette chip, the source said.
Besides the serial number, the other missing features include support for hardware digital certificates -- something banking and finance firms would have preferred, the source said.