[naikrovek]

well if you aren't in an enterprise it is unused and inactive

if you don't want to spend $0.10 on the feature in the chip, spend 100 billion times more than that to start a CPU fabrication company and license x86_64 so you can make your own CPU.

we can't have everything a la carte. it doesn't make sense.

[LukeShu]

Framing it as a $0.10 cost issue is disingenuous. It's not that I want to save $0.10, it's that I want hardware that specifically does not have that functionality. And I'm willing to spend more to get it; though not $10billion more.

And it's not that they'd have to re-tool their fabs to make it either; they're already set up to make non-ME systems for certain government buyers. Please let civilians buy those systems.