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Can we not have separate enterprise and individual classes of processor?
by boppo1 4y ago
Can we not have separate enterprise and individual classes of processor?
- ranger207 4y agoHeck, ECC is already market-segregated
- bubblethink 4y agoThis is also segmented. The remote management stuff is marketed as vpro which is not available in all SKUs. However, all Intel processors need the ME.
- vetinari 4y agoWe do, sort of. In order to have network access, Intel Management Engine is not enough, it does not have full network access at all. You need Intel AMT (also marketed as "vPro"), and that one is paid extra. With CPUs featuring such support being separate SKUs, so you would definitely know -- and you can check in ark. You also need to pair it with Intel ethernet or wifi, any other network interface is not good enough. So here you have it, your separate class of processor.
- wmf 4y agoConsumer PCs already don't have vPro/AMT, although Intel can't afford to make separate hardware so there's a concern that the out-of-band hardware path could be activated later by malware.
- Spooky23 4y agoWe do. Every time this topic comes up, everyone gets angry about something that doesn’t affect them, at all.