(15.6.2016) The purpose of AMT is to provide a way to manage computers remotely (this is similar to an older system called „Intelligent Platform Management Interface“ or IPMI, but more powerful). To achieve this task, the ME is
capable of accessing any memory region without the main x86 CPU knowing about the existence of these accesses. It also runs a TCP/IP server on your network interface and packets entering and leaving your machine on certain ports bypass any firewall running on your system.