McAfee Yeah, this is one of the worst purchases: "Intel recently spent $7.6 billion to buy cyber security company McAfee, hoping to build its security technolo

McAfee Yeah, this is one of the worst purchases: "Intel recently spent $7.6 billion to buy cyber security company McAfee, hoping to build its security technology directly onto silicon chips" Another analyst quipped about that purchase: “Intel might as well have bought Whole Foods” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dealtalk-intel/intel-mobile-strategy-hinges-on-ma-idUSTRE73K7ZZ20110421 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dealtalk-intel/intel-mobi... And yet, the person at Intel who led the Whole Foods (oops I mean McAfee) purchase was promoted, not fired. When companies get too big they start flailing around. That's what happened to Intel.