Intel Acquires McAfee

[Rob Williams]

Intel is a company that acquires many other companies, and more often than not, the reasons for these acquisitions are obvious to pretty well anyone who chooses to read into them. But yesterday, the company made an acquisition that has many scratching their heads... McAfee. Considering that Intel generally acquires companies based on future plans for their technology, this move is interesting.

Read the rest of our post and then discuss it here!

 

[killem2]

Weird weird weird, WEIRD. I don't get it. What gain is there?

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

oh I get it. "get a free 30-day trial of McAfee with a purchase of any Intel computer!" Oh there WILL be rioting in the streets over that.

 

[madstork91]

wouldn't be surprised to see an intel optimized version as well.

 

[Kougar]

Weird weird weird, WEIRD. I don't get it. What gain is there?

The recent cyber-attacks (Operation Aurora)on Google seemed to have been the catalyst here.

If you remember, Intel tried to push something called VPro with their business chipsets, but it never gained much traction. McAfee was one of the few that built products based on the hardware security features Intel's VPro offered.

It seems Intel has decided security needs to be the prime focus, both for their own company's protection (due to the high sophistication of those and other recent corporate cyber-attacks), and as a concern for their business market customers. They can better protect themselves while building better hardware & software level security for their business platforms.