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If Intel wants to get us excited about their chips these days, they're going to have to start releasing more firmware and microcode so that we can start trusting their products again.

I'd rather run South Korean tech than anything the United States produces these days. It's sad that politics, and the threat of government spying is hurting their tech industry.

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What makes you think the US doesn't introduce spyware in South Korean tech as well?

Here's some fortuitous timing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872418

(Don't know all the implications yet, but it's probably relevant to my comment.)

Do you think most people care about this? If it did we would have a completely open architecture by now with lots of products already on shelves. But we don't, because nobody cares.

I care about this, my colleagues care about this.

GP's point is that the vast majority of people do not.

Heck, the vast majority of tech-inclined people I know don't. And the uninitiated? I'd imagine the only people who care about this outside of IT are the sort who prep armored and spiked vehicles full of canned food.

I'm not trying to deride, just saying, most people do not care about this.

I'm surprised the big clouds (which have to be some of the biggest, most profitable customers of x86 chips) don't push for this.

Do you honestly think that Google and Amazon don't have full control of the firmware that runs on their boards and chips, including microcode? Both Google and Amazon are literally buying customized CPUs from Intel for their clouds.

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