Intel's zero-day problem

Posted May 6, 2017 8:14 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Intel's zero-day problem by rahvin
Parent article: Intel's zero-day problem

> This is the largest chip on the motherboard that's not the CPU. Thank you for posting this, I was under the impression the ME was incorporated into the firmware on the CPU

It's not very clear what you meant here by "firmware".

Actually, if you hadn't given context then "CPU" wouldn't have been very clear either. I think you meant "SoC".

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit
> An IC that contains a CPU may also contain memory, peripheral interfaces, and other components of a computer [like... some Management Engine?]; such integrated devices are variously called microcontrollers or systems on a chip (SoC).