Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover

[Hagar]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11025866

To fight cyber crime at CPU level?

Through buying McAfee, a leading security technology firm, Intel intends to build security features into its microprocessors which go into products such as laptops and phones.

andy.

 

[VaderDSL]

Certainly interesting, I wonder what plans they have!

 

[xJcBx]

Already a thread on this here.

Use search before you post a new thread.

 

[Dark_Angel]

Already a thread on this here.

Use search before you post a new thread.

Which isn't really in a great section, also, search is sometimes unreliable (especially if the thread title has short and common words).

 

[alfalavala]

Intel has a lot of cash lying about.

Maybe dedicated cores for antivirus so they don't grind everything to a halt!

 

[w1llyg]

Hmm i would if its going to be as successful as AMD buying ATi

 

[easyrider]

Already a thread on this here.

Use search before you post a new thread.

And when did you become don ?

This thread here will be more interesting to read than McAfee are crap one million times in GD.

So stop being smart and clever and post something insightful.

 

[EdGey]

That's a lot of money. What ever they were working on previously must have been going very well.

 

[Gashman]

just hope something good comes of this, get annoyed with background security programs raping CPU power, whilst doing seemingly nothing...

 

[Klo]

Hmm, they did pay a lot, its a 66-68% increase of McAfee's share price.

 

[franco_22]

They have that much money laying around maybe they could lower i7/i5 prices a bit

 

[Fras]

I cant wait to see what they do with McAfee, Should improve quite a bit with intel behind it.

 

[nlr]

I'm sure they will make it more optimized for intels cpu's which will be good but then they need to improve the detection rate

 

[233]

would be interesting to see anti virus being integrated into the cpu, obviously lots of things would need worked on ala updating etc etc, but to have antivirus hard coded into a system would solve a lot of problems

 

[Gashman]

would be interesting to see anti virus being integrated into the cpu, obviously lots of things would need worked on ala updating etc etc, but to have antivirus hard coded into a system would solve a lot of problems

would make it very secure as well since its not software that can be tampered with, its a physical entity

 

[KillBoY_UK]

would be interesting to see anti virus being integrated into the cpu, obviously lots of things would need worked on ala updating etc etc, but to have antivirus hard coded into a system would solve a lot of problems

Pretty sure AMD have had something to this effect since the Hammer cores (aka athlon 64)

 

[Stickman]

Maybe dedicated cores for antivirus so they don't grind everything to a halt!

I haven't seen an AV scan make a PC grind to a halt since the single-core era... what AV/CPU are you running?

 

[madindehead]

Pretty sure AMD have had something to this effect since the Hammer cores (aka athlon 64)

Care to elaborate?

 

[radar19]

Do not want. I dont want stuff like that in a CPU.

 

[Hagar]

In the days of multicore processing, we could see cores dedicated to tasks such as AV, then again part of the CPU could be monitoring usage, remember the reaction to Intels ID number on Pentium CPU's.

It depends on your paranoia as to how you feel hardcoding security features into the processor will be used.

A seperate security chipset may be the way this partnership develops. I would be interested to see developments for hardware firewalls built into motherboards similar to that for routers as long as it is easily controllable at bios level by the end user and secure from snooping.

andy