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> The future of chips is security on the chip. I was like no, no its not! Putting aside whether the statement is considered true or not, buying McAfee under th
by anyfoo 3y ago
> The future of chips is security on the chip. I was like no, no its not!
Putting aside whether the statement is considered true or not, buying McAfee under the guise of the kind of security meant when talking about silicon is... weird, to say the least.
- lmm 3y agoMcAfee makes their money from people being required to run it for certification. Imagine government/healthcare/banking/etc. customers being obliged to use only Intel chips because they'll fail their audits (which mandate on-chip antivirus) otherwise. I hate it, but I can see the business sense in trying.
- mikepurvis 3y agoStill, $7.6B is ludicrous money for a "try", especially when everyone in the room should have known how shaky the fundamentals were for such a pitch.
- wredue 3y agoI’m not sure mcaffee is the go to for this requirement any longer. Maybe. Definitely across the 4 enterprise I’ve worked at, they all migrated away from mcaffee.