Intel’s McAfee unit said to draw interest from Thoma, Permira
New York/San Francisco: Intel Corp.’s computer-security unit, McAfee, is drawing interest from private equity firms as the company considers selling the business, people with knowledge of the matter said. Thoma Bravo, Permira and Vista Equity Partners are among firms conducting preliminary research on McAfee in the event of a sale, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Intel is considering offloading McAfee, which made its name as an anti-virus software provider for personal computers, as it moves away from investments in the shrinking PC market business and concentrates on offerings for its more profitable data-center business. That took longer than Intel had predicted, and as a part of the company’s software division the unit continues to under-perform the chipmaker’s main businesses.
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