Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/intel-closes-7-68-billion-mcafee-acquisition/

by emmanuelory • 15 years ago

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lowglow• 15 years ago

Hm. I see this as a play for DRM locking things across the stack. Deep scan and data analysis software would be ripe for implementing this. Maybe I'm just paranoid.

theklub• 15 years ago

This seems like a huge waste of money to me.

c2• 15 years ago

This is one of those deals that make absolutely no sense to me. Even less sense in fact then the Time Warner/AOL debacle.

Can someone explain any drop of rationale Intel might have for doing this? I am coming up empty.

sajithw• 15 years ago

It's a long term investment to bring security down to the hardware level.

electromagnetic• 15 years ago

Bringing security down to the hardware level only means you'll be enabling virus-access to the hardware level because hardware will never keep up with software.

trafficlight• 15 years ago

A better investment would be to fix the holes in the first place.

Or, better yet, spend that money to educate users and administrators alike on how to protect themselves.

dmfdmf• 15 years ago

Perhaps Intel plans on giving the Mcafee virus scanner away for free. The resulting bogged down and slow computers would lead to increased demand for more powerful Intel CPUs.

/sarcasm

corecirculator• 15 years ago

Long shot, but has it got anything to do with real estate? Intel and McAfee HQs are located within a mile of each other... again, its a crazy angle, just putting it out there.

olalonde• 15 years ago

This was discussed on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617186

statictype• 15 years ago

Intel CEO: I need some anti-virus. Can someone buy me McAfee?

Minion [2 hours later]: OK, Done.

vipivip• 15 years ago

I have come across persons who cannot remove McAfee from their machines.

pjscott• 15 years ago

Maybe someone should start selling software to scan for such hard-to-dislodge software and remove it. An anti-anti-virus scanner.

melling• 15 years ago

Sun went for less. Oracle sure got a great deal.

thematt• 15 years ago

Probably more like Intel got a bad deal.

ojbyrne• 15 years ago

Story is 2 hours old and has a bad href displayed as text in the body of the article. Is there no quality control at techcrunch?

flyt• 15 years ago

No.

Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition

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