Management engine1/22/2024 ![]() While the highest profit margins in the PC industry come from large-volume purchases for businesses, this set up a downward spiral for user freedom. These options would probably never see the light of day otherwise. Choosing Purism as the manufacturer gives each user freedom, privacy, and security because Purism believes in giving users freedom, privacy, and security. Purism learned through the supply chain (and the provided manufacturing documentation) that we, as the motherboard fabricator, have a lot more control than the end-user does with regard to the Multichip Package (MCP). Cryptography is superb when in the hands and control of each user, but it is nasty when it strips the users’ control. This bond renders it mathematically impossible to give each user control. As mentioned in Purism Business Model and Vision, the model of “buy hardware, install free software” is aging, due primarily to the fact that there is a growing cryptographic bond between proprietary non-free signed binaries and the hardware that they run on. ![]() This is one of the many reasons Purism started as an organization: to solve really hard problems by manufacturing hardware that can fully respect users freedoms in the future. There is no other way to do it consistently over time. The reason the Intel ME is so impenetrable is that you have to combine hardware selection, hardware configuration, hardware fuses, and firmware, which requires to push into the manufacturing and fabrication process. Why Purism has the uncommon ability to run a freed ME Users would then be able to have hardware that is one step closer to respecting their freedoms at the BIOS level. ![]() It is a black box of mystery code at the lowest level, in ring -2, with complete control over every part of the system.īy working with Intel, motherboard design developers, as well as our coreboot developers, Purism has put in motion a solid approach on how to run a freed Intel ME in the future. It operates all-by-itself and separate from the main processor, the BIOS, and the Operating system (OS), but it does interact with the BIOS and OS kernel. The Intel Management Engine (ME) is a separate independent processor core that is actually embedded inside the Multichip Package (MCP) on Intel CPUs. ![]()
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