AMD PSP is AMD's version of ME present in the new AMD stuff - one has to
buy an older 2013 or before AMD x86 CPU to avoid it generally.
Todays options for *new* owner controlled performance hardware is POWER8
and 9 - x86 is dead and those who claim otherwise have no idea what
they're talking about.
Your options:
Low/Medium Performance - KCMA-D8 for $260 with $60 4386 CPU (plus ram
cpu etc) just abut an FX-8310 - KCMA-D8/KGPE-D16 have libre owner
controlled firmware - it is circa 2011 hardware but it will run qubes
4.0. I have one and it works great and supports IOMMU-GFX so you can
play games in a VM via an attached graphics card.
Ultra High Performance (brand new hotness and truly special) - The TALOS
2 POWER9 workstation which is 100% libre and owner controlled including
not just the firmware but the hardware too - price is 2K (plus ram, psu
case etc) which is a great deal for high performance workstation/server
hardware (ironic that the closed source x86 crap costs more) - Note that
you would not be able to run x86 windows apps in a windows VM without a
significant performance penalty so you would need to be entirely linux,
it also supports IOMMU-GFX so you can watch movies in a VM or play some
of the few linux games that have source code available (to compile for
POWER)
POWER9 supports 8 SMP threads per core so it is great for virtualization
even if one doesn't buy one of the 12+ core CPU's.
You would have to compile qubes for POWER as there is no POWER port, but
that can easily be done.
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