What about the Intel Management Engine?
What about the Intel Management Engine?
Posted Jan 6, 2018 1:40 UTC (Sat) by rahvin (guest, #16953)In reply to: What about the Intel Management Engine? by jspenguin
Parent article: Addressing Meltdown and Spectre in the kernel
The ME contains an Edison/Quark CPU x32 CPU. According to Wikipedia it's got the same instruction set as a P54C/i586 CPU. There is no indication if it's got the out of order engine that was present on the 586.
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