<i>&gt; what&#x27;s changed is dramatically lower cost for homebrew hardware or industrial prototyping</i><p>Also changed is industry awareness of x86 platform (in)security, an increased role for the Intel ME in 2016 laptops, and the existence of a software-hardware partnership (Qubes-Purism) that could advance the proposed architecture.<p>Any open-hardware implementation of these ideas has the potential to influence mainstream x86 OEMs, as OLPC inspired the netbook category.  The more people who design and build open hardware prototypes, the faster the industry can converge on a disaggregated firmware&#x2F;hardware TCB.