INTEL OFFERS A WAY TO LIMIT THE IMPACT OF ANTIVIRUS ON BATTERIES

Intel offers a new anti-virus parade. If they are indispensable, they can also significantly stress the battery, as well as the computing power of the terminal. Intel therefore advises developers to prioritize on the graphics controller processors rather than the hearts to relieve PCs.

---CPU power heavily impacted by antivirus scans---

Intel will soon offer a new device to limit the negative impact of virus scanning on your PC. This is the Intel Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT) solution. This is to find solutions to a processor use that can cause slowdowns and be very greedy at the battery. For this, it will no longer be the hearts that will be solicited, but the graphics control of Core processors. It has a double advantage: it is equally efficient in antivirus analysis and much less energy intensive. What make security tasks more efficient. One of Intel's security unit chief, Rick Echevarria, says, "Our first tests show that CPU resources are going from 20% to 2%." This allows a preservation of computing units and greater endurance.

---The Intel solution to limit the negative impact of antivirus---

It is that Intel changes solution with Intel TDT, by mixing the type of computation: one is not here on CPU, but on something of plural, namely a computing device GPGPU. Indeed, this one solicits the power of the cores of the processor as well as all the units of execution that one finds within the chips of the graphic cards. The Intel TDT solution will be compatible with 6, 7 and 8th generation processors. This will therefore affect a large number of PCs. The device should be showcased at the US Security Show, RSA 2018.

We will find the second novelty proposed by the firm, namely Accelerated Memory Scanning (AMS). Meanwhile, Intel is in talks with several security suite vendors, including Microsoft, which claims to have already integrated the AMS into its own professional security suite.