Intel acquires McAfee

lopri

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MarkLuvsCS

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Umm, am I the only one highly concerned for the overly bloated POS McAfee software is? I have used it on a lot of different computers and even ones that should run pretty fast their software was pretty bad. Couldn't even easily disable the damn thing to try something. Maybe Intel will change this?? lol
 

Rifter

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Umm, am I the only one highly concerned for the overly bloated POS McAfee software is? I have used it on a lot of different computers and even ones that should run pretty fast their software was pretty bad. Couldn't even easily disable the damn thing to try something. Maybe Intel will change this?? lol

Probably not, then you will have to upgrade to the new CPU to run it, so win win for intel.
 

nyker96

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OMG, the Empire strikes again! Run ... the empire is coming to take over the world ... again!
 

classy

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McAfee is just terrible anymore. I doubt its even a top 6-7 av or security suite anymore.
 

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This is what has had my mind boggling since I first read/heard about this deal...for the life of me I could not figure out why the heck Intel would want into the consumer market for anti-virus protection and security.

I figured it had to be something about blocking IP that McAfee owns and Intel wants to own it themselves (versus just licensing) so they can control/block who else it also gets licensed too.

But...if this has more to do with corporate VM business and less to do with McAfee Total Protection 2010 then I can start to see the angle...
 

Phynaz

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PC anitivirus is only about 25% of McAfee's business. Intel couldn't give a crap about that. Intel wants to secure the hardware of a billion phones.
 

IntelUser2000

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But...if this has more to do with corporate VM business and less to do with McAfee Total Protection 2010 then I can start to see the angle...

It's a wholly owned subsidiary just like Wind River so its not like McAfee will cease to exist and be fully integrated with Intel software engineers. Which would really be stupid.
 

ehume

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Umm, am I the only one highly concerned for the overly bloated POS McAfee software is? I have used it on a lot of different computers and even ones that should run pretty fast their software was pretty bad. Couldn't even easily disable the damn thing to try something. Maybe Intel will change this?? lol

Nono, my good fellow. Use it with quad cores. With the antivirus using the entire resources of one of your cores, you're running a 3-core machine with no AV burdens. Quite the coup, eh?
 

Idontcare

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wow! charlie is totally lucid and makes a lot of sense for once...
I think he is actually right about that one.

And if you think about it, this basically says Intel is convinced that owning McAfee and expanding their business in this direction was more worthwhile than buying Nvidia and expanding their business in their direction.
 

taltamir

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And if you think about it, this basically says Intel is convinced that owning McAfee and expanding their business in this direction was more worthwhile than buying Nvidia and expanding their business in their direction.

well, buying nvidia will be a problem with the government, they don't want to be broken up. And supposedly mccaffe gives them new capabilities in a market they already have 80% dominance in.
 

lopri

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Maybe now McAfee will finally stop making shit products.
Well, I'm thinking there will be no new MacAfee products from here on other than support for the existing ones.

From Intel's point of view it's about providing the "whole package" instead of just CPUs, and the industry has been moving to this direction for some time now. I've been calling it fondly "console-lization of PCs" and when the inevitable day comes I'm likely to have a different hobby. ^_^
 

IntelUser2000

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Well, I'm thinking there will be no new MacAfee products from here on other than support for the existing ones.

While Intel now owns McAfee, it wasn't disintegrated ala 3DFX so they can keep doing what they were doing before, within Intel watch I guess.
 

bryanW1995

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I don't think that nvidia would bring up insurmountable anti-trust issues. maybe they just would rather have "record profits" instead of "whoop-ass". also, they probably expect nvidia's price to drop over the next couple of years as amd continues to press their advantage.