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by OldGoodNewBad 1843 days ago
Nobody ever, ever does.
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Literally every post about CPUs on HN does...
The most secret of government agencies use Intel chips.
With the ME disabled/removed
You can't remove it, really. Check section on "Disabling the ME"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

You can neuter it with JTAG, stop trusting Wikipedia as complete.

At best, usually incomplete.

> You can neuter it with JTAG

At the risk of having a non-functional processor and probably sub optimal reliability.

The statement on Wikipedia is accurate. Whether you trust the information or not is neither here nor there. Several sources back up the assertion. Further down, it adds that even Google itself tried to get rid of ME and couldn't.

Pretty sure the government has more options than me.
the article says they use these new chips as gpus and still use intel chips for the os?