Most of you have probably heard that Intel announced that it will acquire McAfee for almost $8 billion dollars. What I find interesting is that Intel paid $48 per share or about 60% more than the $30 per share where McAfee had been trading at. There are a lot of discussions about why Intel did this. Bruce Schneier has an interesting thread on this.
Having used McAfee at several companies I thought this quote particularly interesting.
McAfee may be able to optimize its notoriously performance-hungry software now that it’s a part of the company that provides the CPUs to many computers
Will we see an Intel based “antivirus chip” on mobo’s? Maybe….
–Chris
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August 29th, 2010 at 8:48 am
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