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Why doesn't Intel offer their chips without an ME, as an option? The mandatory nature makes it malicious.
by kazagistar 9y ago
Why doesn't Intel offer their chips without an ME, as an option? The mandatory nature makes it malicious.
- MBCook 9y agoWhat percentage of people would really want that? The vast majority of consumers don’t know/care. Or it’s sold as a feature. Most businesses probaby WANT the feature. See other comments in this discussion about lights-out management. I’m guessing t wouldn’t be economically worth it.
- confounded 9y agoIf you’re not using it, then it’s a big unpatched vulnerability. I’ve never worked anywhere that uses it, although I’m sure a few places do.
- openasocket 9y agoSaves money to have only one assembly line of chips. Hell, the i5 chips they make now are just i7s with some of the features disabled. So if they make an i7 and there's an error in some part of the chip that's specific to the i7 features, they can disable the i7 parts and sell it as a working i5. At least this is what I recall from an article a year ago on here about that.
- thisacctforreal 9y agoThis is known as the “Silicon Lottery”
- criddell 9y agoThere are parts of ME that you need (like the BUP module for configuring on boot).