Quite the opposite. While IME is discussed to death, the same loss of control is happening everywhere and becoming more and more entrenched. Like mentioned els

Quite the opposite. While IME is discussed to death, the same loss of control is happening everywhere and becoming more and more entrenched. Like mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the problem isn't the presence of these types of components, but how opaque to the user (read: highly technical user) they are. Also they exist because there is demand for their features. The talk I linked makes the case that OS development is failing by pretending these co-processors are outside its scope, and hardware vendors just go and do their own thing on the side. I add that this incentivizes proprietary firmware instead of open one. I mean, if there were pressure (from paying customers) for Intel to support open-source IME firmware, they'd do it. After all, they just want to sell more chips.