Intel offloads virus scanning to the GPU for better battery life and performance

Intel actually has nearly a dozen different technologies that it has developed to secure PCs--many of which fly beneath the radar, even those that it has marketed at consumers, like True Key. Intel's sought to lock down the PC from the BIOS, to the OS, to the apps and data. Intel's final announcement was what it called Intel Security Essentials, a way to standardize the security features built into the Atom, Core, and Xeon processors so that developers could build applications that take advantage of these in a consistent way.