Intel‘s purchase of security software firm McAfee today for $7.68 billion in cash raises the question: what the heck is Intel buying a software company for? The McAfee purchase will consume all of ...

The $884 million acquisition deal gives Intel a serious software business. But will it light a fire under the Atom chip for embedded computing? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Last week it was reported that Intel may be moving away from its stewardship of open source projects, with one Intel exec quoted as saying the company is rethinking its strategy regarding open source ...

In an interview with CRN, new Intel Global Channel Chief Trevor Vickers talks about his plan to ‘keep evolving’ the Intel Partner Alliance program as the chipmaker continues its push into software and ...

Still in patent stages, Intel’s Software Defined Super Core CPUs could deliver faster task processing and improved gaming performance. The tech would essentially use multiple cores to process a task ...