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The mystery is solved as follows:

neitherNeither eyes nor memory of the asker were in doubt.

As shipped, the Intel i7 2635QM did notdid not support AES-NI!

Meaning if you would open a box from an abandoned warehouse with factory sealed MacBook Pros from 2011 this would still be the case today.

Evidence for that is found in a contemporary review by AnandTech:

p5: Core i7-2635QM – AES-NI – No

But that feature, as it turned out, could be unlocked later via software update.

And Apple did that with a so called EFI-Update containing that processor configuration update/unlock a few months after Intel released it. Sadly they failed — as usual — to disclose what they did with such an update, although this was a very welcome addition.

However, note that some Intel processors, which the Intel website lists as AES-NI-supporting, actually support the AES-NI instructions only with a Processor Configuration update (for example, i7-2630/2635QM, i7-2670/2675QM, i5-2430/2435M, i5-2410/2415M). In such cases, you should contact the manufacturer of the motherboard/computer for a BIOS update that includes the latest Processor Configuration update for the processor.

The mystery is solved as follows:

neither eyes nor memory of the asker were in doubt.

As shipped, the Intel i7 2635QM did not support AES-NI!

Meaning if you would open a box from an abandoned warehouse with factory sealed MacBook Pros from 2011 this would still be the case today.

Evidence for that is found in a contemporary review by AnandTech:

p5: Core i7-2635QM – AES-NI – No

But that feature could be unlocked via software update.

And Apple did that with a so called EFI-Update containing that processor configuration update/unlock a few months after Intel released it. Sadly they failed as usual to disclose what they did with such an update, although this was a very welcome addition.

However, note that some Intel processors, which the Intel website lists as AES-NI-supporting, actually support the AES-NI instructions only with a Processor Configuration update (for example, i7-2630/2635QM, i7-2670/2675QM, i5-2430/2435M, i5-2410/2415M). In such cases, you should contact the manufacturer of the motherboard/computer for a BIOS update that includes the latest Processor Configuration update for the processor.

The mystery is solved as follows:

Neither eyes nor memory of the asker were in doubt.

As shipped, the Intel i7 2635QM did not support AES-NI!

Meaning if you would open a box from an abandoned warehouse with factory sealed MacBook Pros from 2011 this would still be the case today.

Evidence for that is found in a contemporary review by AnandTech:

p5: Core i7-2635QM – AES-NI – No

But that feature, as it turned out, could be unlocked later via software update.

And Apple did that with a so called EFI-Update containing that processor configuration update/unlock a few months after Intel released it. Sadly they failed — as usual — to disclose what they did with such an update, although this was a very welcome addition.

However, note that some Intel processors, which the Intel website lists as AES-NI-supporting, actually support the AES-NI instructions only with a Processor Configuration update (for example, i7-2630/2635QM, i7-2670/2675QM, i5-2430/2435M, i5-2410/2415M). In such cases, you should contact the manufacturer of the motherboard/computer for a BIOS update that includes the latest Processor Configuration update for the processor.

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The mystery is solved as follows:

neither eyes nor memory of the asker were in doubt.

As shipped, the Intel i7 2635QM did not support AES-NI!

Meaning if you would open a box from an abandoned warehouse with factory sealed MacBook Pros from 2011 this would still be the case today.

Evidence for that is found in a contemporary review by AnandTech:

p5: Core i7-2635QM – AES-NI – No

But that feature could be unlocked via software update.

And Apple did that with a so called EFI-Update containing that processor configuration update/unlock a few months after Intel released it. Sadly they failed as usual to disclose what they did with such an update, although this was a very welcome addition.

However, note that some Intel processors, which the Intel website lists as AES-NI-supporting, actually support the AES-NI instructions only with a Processor Configuration update (for example, i7-2630/2635QM, i7-2670/2675QM, i5-2430/2435M, i5-2410/2415M). In such cases, you should contact the manufacturer of the motherboard/computer for a BIOS update that includes the latest Processor Configuration update for the processor.