I recently looked into buying a new laptop, and found minifree.org, who supply libreboot BIOS chips.<p>What astounded me was that Intel post 2008 and AMD post 2011 have seperate management chips that mean essentially any motherboard is rooted at the start.<p>I still need to dive into the complexities (I knew about Intel ME but assumed we could get round it somehow) but we need these open chips more than ever.