Intel to Buy McAfee for $7.68B to Secure Its Growth in the Cloud.

"The ability to offer integrated security in its chips and other products in a variety of forms could give Intel an advantage over competitor AMD in the server market, and could give it some competitive heft against ARM in the mobile space, as corporate users become more concerned about security in the cloud. The McAfee acquisition could allow Intel to offer a way to securely tunnel between client devices and servers in the cloud, with security on a mobile chip as well as on the server side. There’s also McAfee’s software and services business to tap into."