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qb45 on July 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in th...

Who is AMT? I thought AMT is just Intel's marketing name for certain remote management features.

Also, I'm under impression that [6] refers not only to firmware blobs running on various auxiliary coprocessors but also the machine's firmware, i.e. BIOS, and in particular the CPU initialization component which had been provided only in binary form by both Intel and AMD for a few years now.

turblety on July 6, 2017 [–]

Sorry, my mistake. I should take better care of my writing. I should have written AMD instead of AMT. I cannot edit my post.

AMT is the poorly written and proprietary firmware Active Management Technology. This allows you to remotely control a computer.

AMD is a company and competitor to Intel.

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