Some Intel Chips Can Be Reconfigured to Support AES

[Ivan Avery Frey]

I was reading the fine print on one of Intel's Spec pages and I found 
this little gem:

Some products can support AES New Instructions with a Processor 
Configuration update, in particular, i7-2630QM/i7-2635QM, 
i7-2670QM/i7-2675QM, i5-2430M/i5-2435M, i5-2410M/i5-2415M. Please 
contact OEM for the BIOS that includes the latest Processor 
configuration update.

Hmmm, does this update the firmware on the processor? Isn't that dangerous?

Ivan.
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