Wind River and Intel Align to Market Optimized Multicore Solutions for Embedded Market
Industry Leaders to Accelerate Adoption of Multicore Computing
NUREMBURG, GERMANY— March 4, 2009 — Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced that working in conjunction with Intel the two companies will collaborate to market optimized multicore solutions for the embedded market by aligning research and development, sales and marketing, professional services, and engineering resources. The two companies will initially target the Aerospace and Defense, Network Infrastructure, Industrial, Medical and Print Imaging market segments.
The collaboration will focus on advancing market plans for four primary technology optimizations that enable transitions to multicore:
- Optimization of Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux on Embedded Intel® architecture processors;
- Optimization of Wind River's hypervisor technology for Intel processors including full utilization of Intel Virtualization Technology (VT);
- Increased interoperability of development tools for analysis and tuning of multicore devices; and
- Integration of Intel compiler and performance primitives into Wind River multicore software platforms for Intel processors.
Achieving Business Goals
with Wind River's Multicore Software Solution
The trend toward multicore processors is causing the most significant disruption the device market has seen in years. The advent of true parallel execution of software increases the complexity of both porting and developing applications for multicore processors. This paradigm shift is changing the way device makers write software and configure their systems.
Addressing these challenges, Wind River's Multicore Software solution is a comprehensive development environment supporting real-time and general-purpose operating systems, symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing, virtualization, and optimization tools. By combining these technologies, device makers are achieving their business goals for higher performance, greater differentiation, and lower cost. Virtualization presents the opportunity to reduce hardware costs and power consumption, leverage existing intellectual property (IP), and innovate by adding new capabilities to existing devices.
Events and Webcasts
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Seminar: Leveraging Multicore and Virtualization June 23, 2009: Westlake Village, CA June 24, 2009: Irvine, CA June 25, 2009: Phoenix, AZ |
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Applying Multicore and Virtualization to Industrial Applications Archived webcast |
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Embedded Multicore System Development Fundamentals Archived webcast |
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Turbo-Charged Networking: Optimizing Networking Performance Using Multicore Hardware Offload Archived webcast |
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Multicore: A Look from Three Sides Archived webcast |
White Papers
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Applying Multicore and Virtualization to Industrial and Safety-Related Applications |
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Best Practices: Adoption of Symmetric Multiprocessing Using VxWorks and Intel Multicore Processors Register to download |
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Simplifying Multicore and Multiprocessor Debugging Register to download |
Wind River Multicore Blogs
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Multicore Means Communication Mark Hermeling, Senior Product Manager, Multicore and Virtualization Solutions Read blog |
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Making Multicore Work Paul Tingey, System Architect Read blog |
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Which Is Better: AMP or SMP? Mark Hermeling, Senior Product Manager, Multicore and Virtualization Solutions Read blog |
Press Releases and News
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Wind River Advances Multicore Leadership with Introduction of Latest VxWorks Real-Time Operating System Read press release |
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Wind River to Enable Virtualization for Devices with Introduction of Scalable Hypervisor Read press release |
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Wind River Extends Leadership in Multicore Device Development Read press release |
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Wind River to Debut Scalable Hypervisor 6-18-2008 SD Times |
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Wind River Readies Virtualization Stack 6-16-2008 LinuxDevices.com |
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Wind River Releases Proprietary Hypervisor for Hardware Virtualization 6-16-2008 Virtualization.com |