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by qb45
3330 days ago
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> If it was just for enterprise users there would be no reason to impose it on everyone. It would be positioned as an enterprise exclusive with a price premium. AMT is positioned as enterprise exclusive with a price premium, that's how Intel's pricing usually works. The underlying hardware (the ME) is not, because it's used for other things too. On old chipsets you can clear the ME firmware and the computer will miss some weird features but otherwise work, on newer chipsets it won't work at all. That's why every chip has the ME even if many chips don't have the AMT. > The fact that both AMD and ARM integrated similar technologies at around the same time is too much coincidence. AMD: not coincidence, competition. ARM: See the sibling post. |
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For the sake of argument more than anything, were AMD even remotely competitive with Intel in the enterprise sector at the time they introduced their version of this technology? Sure, they might need it one day (which may be soon) and it'd be nice to have it out there and supported, but I'm not totally convinced by this argument.