"The chipsets associated with Skylake microarchitecture released around August 2015 and onwards have a new version of the ME(version 11), with new compression dictionaries which are not public.":
http://io.netgarage.org/me/
"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.":
https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/in...ship-with.html