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>>doener+(OP)
If I read that right, they're allowing Intel ME, which sounds like a sad compromise to me. Given that it's a pretty big complex black box that one can't easily disable, would you agree that x86 is doomed when it comes to security? If that's the case, is there any hope we could have a CPU with competitive capabilities? (For example, is there an i7 alternative for ARM?)

What could one do to make it possible to have ME-less x86 in the future?

>>d33+y5
It seems to me that there's not much hope for an ME-less x86 compatible machine in the near future. Intel is pretty invested in the product and AMD has introduced a similar solution for their systems.

Another architecture all together, designed from the ground up to support a free and secure system, seems a better bet.