This begs the question why?
The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, has agreed to buy the security technology firm, McAfee.
Intel will pay $7.68bn (£5bn) in cash. Under the terms of the deal, Intel said it would pay $48 per share in cash for McAfee, almost 60% higher than its closing price on Wednesday. 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. Full article: BBC News - Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover |
If Intel chips are going to come with McAfee built-in, then I'm going to be buying shares in AMD.
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Yep- how to kill a product.
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Hmm, the US press around this story is suggesting that Intel will be building processors aimed at delivering security applications, not that McAfee will be integrated into Intel cores in general - try this analysis.
That would make much more sense to me, we're seeing a big move towards "Appliance" based processing, where you buy a specialised piece of kit to perform a function, for example a database appliance or a data deduplicating appliance. In this paradigm, a security appliance makes a lot of sense Of course, those of us "of a certain age"(*) may look at this appliance based computing & say something like "Didn't mainframes work like this when we were young?" (*) A euphanism for "Grumpy old b*****r" |
I have an interest in this - because McAfee compete with my mob in an area or two. Will be interesting to see what happens to the bits of McAfee which don't easily plug in to microprocessors.
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we're seeing a big move towards "Appliance" based processing, where you buy a specialised piece of kit to perform a function Appliances are for SMEs.... easy to deploy and support. I reckon pigs will fly before you see Oracle, SQL, Exchange et. al. in appliance format. My money is on Intel branded McAfee IP based ASICs on Intel desktop/laptop chipsets. |
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