It should've only been sold on a special "business class" series of CPUs. Intel already loves having dozens of variants, as evidenced by recent market offerings

It should've only been sold on a special "business class" series of CPUs. Intel already loves having dozens of variants, as evidenced by recent market offerings; and it's not like they don't already have dedicated business-class CPUs for workstations. Simply only sell ME as an "addon" tier, and that limits the potential damage. Incidentally, did you hear about Silent Bob is Silent? What are your thoughts on that vuln?