Would be good to have a low performance riscv motherboard with something like a PCI bus. Then, run an x86 daughter card. Early arm systems (acorn RISC pc) could house a 486 daughter card like this, and you could run Windows on it in a box. Have one at home.

And even with ARM (I'm not familiar with RISC-V), you're likely going to have binary blobs for critical drivers.

Worse, in Qualcomm chips you have essentially the same OS as in AMD "Secure" Processor. Trustonic TEE OS. Handling ARM "Trust"Zone.

>I say it also has to do with them just not caring about what their users want.

Why are people buying their products?

Because the only alternative is AMD, who, until Ryzen, was lacking in performance quite a bit.

In that case, it actually goes against your "they don't care about their users" narrative. Or maybe they partially care about their users.

Anyway, I see some value in the features that ME provides, and so I'm not as anti-ME as a lot of the commenters on here. But obviously, I want the security bugs to be fixed too.

What I was trying to say is that Intel doesn’t really have a financial incentive to have non-ME SKUs because, besides the majority of users not caring, those who do care don’t really have any other options.

Sadly, the main reason IMO this isn't possible is not just that desktop software is designed for the x86 instruction set, but that it's designed for lots of RAM and CPU usage, when it could be slimmer.