Intel tries to backstop its own roadmaps - Bob Colwell, former Intel chief architect
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No McAfee technology will appear in Intel chips until 2012
CHIPMAKER Intel has revealed its 2011 roadmap for integrating McAfee technologies into its products with no silicon incorporating that to tip up before 2012.
Following Intel's purchase of McAfee for a stonking $7.68bn last year, the firm has been relatively quiet on its plans to integrate the security technology it acquired. Talking at an Intel investor event, David DeWalt, the president of Intel's McAfee subsidiary outlined Intel's plans for McAfee in 2011.
DeWalt explained how McAfee will provide Intel security at more than just the application layer. Intel has already talked vaguely about its so-called 'secure silicon', however DeWalt talked about McAfee sandwiching the application layer with anti-malware and 'self-protecting agents', along with its Global Threat Intelligence software that is in the cloud.
The first order of business for DeWalt was to say that McAfee will provide 'cross platform' support, meaning that it won't be standardised on Microsoft's Windows operating system. The architecture that DeWalt displayed featured Intel's Wind River operating system, which is a hardened Linux based operating system targeted at embedded applications.
DeWalt said that by the end of the second quarter of 2011, Intel will have integrated McAfee's technology into its Wind River Linux distribution, with an application white list to be implemented at the start of the fourth quarter of 2011. On the desktop, a new McAfee client that is optimised for Intel chips will be released in the third quarter.
The news that McAfee will release a security client that is optimised for Intel chips was no great surprise, but that's not what everyone wanted to hear. DeWalt did say that Intel will launch new client and datacenter products with embedded technology arriving soon, but his presentation lay to bed the conjecture that Intel will bring out any new silicon that includes McAfee technology in 2011.
DeWalt mentioned that Intel wants to expand security from the current 'endpoint' model, where a user simply runs an application that provides pseudo security. He even mentioned that Intel will "utilise and invent new technology to prevent advanced persistent threats". In 2012 the pressure will increase on Intel to do more innovative inventing, after having spent so much to acquire McAfee. µ
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History repeats itself. Intel dug pit for AMD by ordering to throtle it FloatingPoint. Now its time for Intel to throtle its ownself by installing AV in its CPUs. Many people/gammers just dont install AVs to keep PC faster. AMD can just intriduce GPU accelrated AV. already demonstrated by Kaspersky.
Intel is fooling you. Actually they need Mcafee stunt to buy love for MeeGo, cuz its a mee-too OS in already saturated OS space. Since most/all of the visurses in world are x86 native, MeeGo on 22Nm-Atom(x86)-Smartphone will bleed like a slaughtered pig. I know Android is x86 but is not common on x86 hardware.
In my experience McAfee security is a memory hog and slows operation substantially. So with InHell buying them and employing a silicon level process, it's just one more good reason to not buy InHell products.
Aside from the McAfee subscription fees, since the malware protection provided by McAfee is second-rate, I suppose I will have to stop using Intel CPUs in my new computers once McAfee is integrated into the silicon.
I have removed viruses from hundreds of PCs that were "protected" by McAfee. It's not very effective.
People who use Intel CPU will also need to pay subscription fees for the Virus update.
Intel starts policing for MS. Drm and other technology. My os don't need a bigger load on the cpu to check for virus and who knows what else. For the most part I have used AMD. I hope they are smart enough to stay away from this kind of tech. How much more will this crap ad to the cost of the cpu and frankly it might not work and cause all kind of other potential problems. I can even see a monthly fee or Intel will turn off your cpu. Bad news period.