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The reason is probably that enthusiasm died out when Intel used it for their covert management engine in every x86 cpu they sell. Essentially bavkdooring all computers in the world...
Hard to believe.
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"These processors are running a closed-source variation of the open-source MINIX 3. We don't know exactly what version or how it's been modified" You'd hope the version they use has been worked on in the last 5 years.
Or maybe you'd hope it hasn't - if there are holes in it then you've got a better chance of being able to regain control of your own hardware.
Hoping that intel drops the ball on your processors security in what is likely a high dollar research area for most nation states is not a great play.
In theory you can just turn it off in your bios but, who knows?
Can’t software be done? No known bugs, all features in a proposed scope written. Done and done.
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Um wat
Probably refers to [1] 1 - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-removing-minix-mana...
Purism laptops being a commercial venture to have modern hardware.
Then there's vendors repurposing older Thinkpads packaged with libreboot or coreboot.
The Intel CPU/microOS inside of a CPU while cool and even cooler that Minix was used for it, was unfortunately not very transparent for security/paranoid conscious persons.
Can’t software be done? No known bugs, all features in a proposed scope written. Done and done.