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Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:41 am
by Sabre
PC World
Intel has completed its $US7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker announced on Monday.
The all-cash deal makes Intel a security industry powerhouse, giving it a broad range of consumer and enterprise security products. Though the acquisition has left some observers scratching their heads, Intel says it needs the McAfee technology to help it bake security into its microprocessors and chipsets -- especially as Intel looks to become more competitive in smartphones and other portable devices.
My first thought was "Wow, this sucks... look how the Oracle/Sun merger ended up"... then I remembered that McAfee doesn't really have anything that I care about
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:52 pm
by complacent
Sabre wrote:
My first thought was "Wow, this sucks... look how the Oracle/Sun merger ended up"... then I remembered that McAfee doesn't really have anything that I care about
this sums up my complete and concise feelings on the matter.
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:49 pm
by ElZorro
How long before we see some crazy virus scanner infested processor?
Intel only wants to sell chips, just like Google only wants to sell advertising. They wouldn't buy McAfee if they didn't have a plan to sell more chips.
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:28 pm
by PGT
ElZorro wrote:How long before we see some crazy virus scanner infested processor?
umm, they're already far down the road on a secure chip architecture. I look at the McAfee acquisition as adding to that capability.
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:35 am
by Raven
ElZorro wrote:How long before we see some crazy virus scanner infested processor?
Do not want! I also heard that intel was gonna start baking in DRM too.
Viva La AMD.
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:42 pm
by zaxrex
Raven wrote:I also heard that intel was gonna start baking in DRM too.
Viva La AMD.
DRM into what, for what, and by whom?
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:55 pm
by Raven
zaxrex wrote:Raven wrote:I also heard that intel was gonna start baking in DRM too.
Viva La AMD.
DRM into what, for what, and by whom?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375215,00.asp
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:30 pm
by Sabre
Let's hope we can turn that shit off. First they started with the unique ID on the chips (which you can turn off) and now this...
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:24 pm
by complacent
Sabre wrote:Let's hope we can turn that shit off. First they started with the unique ID on the chips (which you can turn off) and now this...
related to that...
steam is using some of those features already.
an
application keeping track of the cpu doing the work. wow.
Re: Intel completes McAfee acquisition
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:36 pm
by Sabre
lol, I was just about to post that!
I don't like where this is headed...