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You can already buy laptops & tablets that come w/ Linux pre-installed & have open-source firmware.
StarLabs and System76 being a couple I know off the top of my head
You can, but most of those aren't very good, are too niche, and borrowing CPUs designed around the whims of Microsoft has me doubting their nativeness.
You're going to be waiting quite a while for a "Linux native CPU", whatever you mean by this. RISC-V is still a long way out from being desktop ready, but progress is slowly happening.
the major cpu vendors all work on the linux kernel because they need big server purchasers to buy new hardware. iirc, linux had support for intel's new efficiency core scheme before windows did for this reason - kernel standards are fairly high and it can take awhile for new features to actually land.
I think what you're actually thinking of is Intel's management engine, which is a server feature they forced into every processor - presumably to encourage businesses to buy Intel (look ma, remote management) but that looks a hell of a lot like NSA spyware. AMD doesn't include their equivalent on consumer-grade hardware and their implementation doesn't allow for anywhere near the same kind of spying. obviously, open hardware would set all doubts to rest.
And it's not impossible to get rid of Intel's management engine, you just have to be comfortable enough with flashing some chips on your motherboard. There are even some manufacturers who do this for you, but you just have to kind of take their word for it.
It varies for every bit of hardware so you will have to do a bit of research, but this should put you on the right track
https://github.com/htruong/ezpi4me
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine
Tuxedo, for EU.