As co-president of McAfee company, Michael DeChezare , which is now part of Intel, the most frequently asked question is an attempt to find out why they are needed by Intel. Indeed, Intel - is a manufacturer of semiconductors in the first place - processors, and the purchase of a software company does not fit well within the scope of its interests. So it was natural to assume that the technology of protection against viruses and break-ins will be prescribed at the hardware level - in the processor or chipset.
It is interesting to note that most future developments delighted the antitrust authorities. If McAfee software will be optimized for the architecture of one company - it will be a convenient excuse to charge a fraction of the money with Intel.
According to the words of McAfee head , Intel has not only gave them complete freedom, but also provided a staff of engineers to create a hardware-compatible platform. The first commercial production before the end of the calendar year will be a hardware-software system to search for rootkits - programs designed to hide the traces of hacking or virus activity. This is the first step towards the implementation of hardware and software technologies from Intel and McAfee. The hardware platform is a set of logic-class processors and vPro Core i3/5/7 first generation, which refers to 2009 processors Lynnfield and Clarkdale.
The first phase of Intel vPro platform - is the ability to remotely wake up the computer when it detects the rootkit in the background, remote virus removal or hacking blocking, followed by sending the computer into sleep mode (using the products McAfee Deep Command and Deep Defender). In the future the company plans to implement a number of hardware ideas. For example, a built-in chipset with a mechanism for organizing the program for an isolated container launch an Internet browser (Internet Explorer).