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Three questions if you don't mind (and feel free to speculate yourself or anyone else): 1. Many features have options to be disabled (e.g. bios settings). Why
by kodablah 9y ago
Three questions if you don't mind (and feel free to speculate yourself or anyone else):
1. Many features have options to be disabled (e.g. bios settings). Why doesn't this, even to this day?
2. You may have been involved in implementation, but do you know why it still exists on every board regardless of backlash?
3. I am a bit ignorant, does the chip fabbing process justify putting this on every board instead of just on enterprise ones (especially since you can consider it a feature worth upcharging for)?
Pardon my skepticism, but its continued use without the ability to disable speaks to ulterior motives regardless of original implementation design.
- periya 9y agoI can answer 2 and 3. 2. IMHO I don’t think there is enough backlash yet. The average consumer is not informed about this yet. I guess this will change over the next couple of months since I’ve been reading a lot more about ME. 3. The chipset is fabbed irrespective of the SKU. Creating a separate floor plan for non enterprise parts is not cost effective , it’s easier to fab every SKU alike and then fuse out features based on the SKU.