How do we solve the Management Engine problem? There is an equivalent in practically every CPU you can buy...

How do we solve the Management Engine problem? There is an equivalent in practically every CPU you can buy. Is there any way around it?

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Buy the CPUs not included in the “practically everywhere” part of your sentence

There is like one ARM cpu without i think and its crap. There are zero on x86. You have no option without it on desktop.

based chinks are making a via x86 processor with 16 cores. it will probably have a ME so im not terrifically exited

>Is there any way around it?
Yes.
Use a soft core CPU on a FPGA. And make sure you do not connect the JTAG

I have no idea what this means

FPGAs are a type of microcontroller that can emulate any instruction set on the assembly level. So you can get one and port an open source architecture like RISC or MIPS on it. Of course it will not perform even closely to the original given these complex modern architectures.

So it roughly speaking converts x86 instructions to instructions that a CPU with a different architecture will understand, so you can use whatever CPU you want, but it comes with a heavy penalty because of the additional step in converting the instructions.

Did i get it right?

Yes. If you're not really into this microchip business, ME doesn''t affect you.

>If you're not really into this microchip business, ME doesn''t affect you.
How so?

Bump

I think there a re more cpus that don't have ME respect to the ones that have it.

>FPGAs are a type of microcontroller
user...

Talos II with Power9.

It doesnt have to literally be Intels Management Engine brand, the equivalent also counts. Almost all CPUs these days have it, even mobile has it and on x86 literally all of them have it.

Stop posting faggot retard.

You've no clue how an FPGA works, do you?

>FPGAs are a type of uC
Nope fpga is a bunch of logic circuits that can be programmed to create a larger and more complex logic circuit.

I guess you could buy a POWER chip for your workstation and a RISCV chip for your laptop/phone/portable porn device.

Can't you just buy an old CPU without ME? If you don't play modern games or do some cpu intensive work you'll be fine.

They tend to have even worse security flaws.

Redpill me on this

>on x86 literally all of them have i
Lies. Good old Core Duos dont. Low end Intels don't.

These alleged flaws are probably also a lie or they are not exploitable in practice.

Bruh

You cant run shit except emacs on that

Bump

Such as?

Can you actually turn off ME analogue on AMD CPUs or it's just marketing?

When has AMD marketed it as user controllable

i.mx6 and i.mx8. RISC-V soon.
get a MNT Reform and Librem 5.

All that shit is a meme though