> The Management Engine (ME), part of Intel AMT Not hugely consequential, but Intel's product line is confusing enough without any help. AMT for years has been

> The Management Engine (ME), part of Intel AMT Not hugely consequential, but Intel's product line is confusing enough without any help. AMT for years has been an application that runs on ME (unless something has changed). From the authoritative book, Platform Embedded Security Technology Revealed: Safeguarding the Future of Computing with Intel Embedded Security and Management Engine by Xiaoyu Ruan, a security researcher with the Platform Engineering Group at Intel (2014) The list of old inventions finding new applications in new domains goes on. The new applications benefit a much wider population and improve more people’s quality of life. When Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) first appeared in 2005, it was marketed as an advanced system management feature for Intel 82573E series gigabit Ethernet controllers. In 2007, a new embedded coprocessor, namely the management engine, was introduced. Originally, the management engine was designed primarily for implementing the AMT rather than running security applications. At that time, the main problem that was supposed to be resolved by the embedded engine and AMT was the high expense and difficulty of system management by network administrators. The management engine was a component of Intel chipsets with vPro technology. The Intel AMT implementation was moved from gigabit Ethernet controllers to the management engine and became a feature of vPro. Intel AMT is not the only application on the management engine. The first security application on the engine was the integrated TPM ...