> So they should just then believe what another third-party vendor CPU says,
They're already doing that by checking whether it says it's a genuine Intel. If you can't trust it when it says that it supports a feature, why trust it when it reports a manufacturer?
It would be questionable if Intel could actually enforce their trademark there. The case would not be all too dissimilar to the Sega v. Accolade case, which Sega lost:
They're already doing that by checking whether it says it's a genuine Intel. If you can't trust it when it says that it supports a feature, why trust it when it reports a manufacturer?