Patent ID: 7640541

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an integrated circuit having a feature table to store information regarding a status of hardware features within the integrated circuit to be enabled after a point of sale of a system including the integrated circuit, the feature table comprising: a first status register having a plurality of indicators each to store information regarding a system support status for one of the hardware features, the first status register to be set by a vendor of the system to certify whether the system as configured by the vendor is able to support the hardware features; a second status register having a plurality of indicators each to store information regarding a feature enable status for one of the hardware features, the second status register to be set by a manufacturer of the integrated circuit to indicate presence of circuitry in the integrated circuit corresponding to the hardware features; a third status register having a plurality of indicators each to store information regarding an upgraded status for one of the hardware features, wherein one of the indicators of the third status register is to be set upon successful enabling of a corresponding one of the hardware features; and a dynamic fuse programming logic to program the integrated circuit to enable at least one of the hardware features according to microcode received from a remote source, wherein the dynamic fuse programming logic comprises a fuse burn controller to burn at least one fuse to enable the at least one of the hardware features based on the microcode.