A few suggestions: * It might be worth looking into: ARM, Intel Atom, or POWER9 processors * Intel chips without VPro seem to omit much of the ME functionalit

A few suggestions: * It might be worth looking into: ARM, Intel Atom, or POWER9 processors * Intel chips without VPro seem to omit much of the ME functionality, including AMT which provides (all of?) the remote access capability. AFAICT, chips with the Small Business Technology implementation of ME are purposely designed to not have remote access. Maybe use one of those. * Flash the chip to enable HAP