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Intel's Brilliant–or Bonehead–Deal

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970204451004575433534095540758.html?mod=BOL_hpp_dc

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At the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas in March, Cisco Systems' (CSCO) chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, asserted that there will be a trillion–a trillion!–Internet-connected devices in 2013, up from 500 million in 2007. If that's anywhere close to accurate, that would mean one trillion opportunities for bad guys to do their thing, stealing credit-card information, shutting power grids, screwing up your PC and generally wrecking the world as we know it.

For now, McAfee will continue to make the kind of anti-virus software that slows the performance of laptops like the one that I'm writing this column on (I know, I know; I'm safer this way). Indeed, Intel says, McAfee will continue to operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary. (And why not? Both companies are based 0.7 of a mile apart in Santa Clara, Calif.). But the real magic from this deal will come when Intel figures out how to move McAfee's virus-stopping, intruder-blocking, malware-stomping expertise from software into the processor itself. And that could take a year, or maybe two.