What I don't understand is why AMD doesn't jump into this niche market: just include a switch on their version of the ME (forgot name) that turns it off. Corporate clients still get their ME if they need it and AMD catches the security-focussed market. This would also mean lucrative orders from non-US governments.
Because a lot of three letter agencies demand these hardware backdoors exist, and AMD has no will to fight them on it.
They announced intent when they released Ryzen to "look into" disabling their ME (they call it the PSP), and then six months later made a backroom comment that it is never going to happen.
There is no ME, if the ME can be turned off by a user. Users are not the real customers of a processor company, where their real customers buy more than 1 or 2 i7s.
