ALAMEDA, Calif., July 30, 2001 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today awarded Performance Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:PTIX), its "Cool Customer Design" award for the IPnexus™ CPC4400 embedded Ethernet switch. (To view previous winners, please visit the Cool Customer Archive.) This fast, flexible, feature-rich 10/100/1000 Ethernet switching solution includes Wind River's Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS), the industry's first fully integrated software solution for the control and management of any layer 2 or layer 3 switching device. Performance Technologies is a leading supplier of packet-based telecommunications and networking products for wireline, wireless, and next-generation Internet protocol (IP) networks.

Designed to operate in demanding embedded telecom environments, the IPnexus Ethernet switch is a robust switching solution for customers looking to quickly and successfully launch carrier-grade IP products. The switch is capable of moving IP traffic either within a standard CompactPCI® chassis, or over an embedded Ethernet network. The latter, known as the CompactPCI/Packet Switching Backplane architecture, was developed by Performance Technologies and is currently being standardized by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG®) 2.16 subcommittee. This revolutionary architecture preserves the mechanical, power, and hot-swap attributes of CompactPCI while dramatically improving data throughput, scalability, and reliability.

"We chose Wind River's TMS software solution to meet our time-to-market goals and still develop a break-through product for packet-based networking and communications," said John Grana, vice president of software at Performance Technologies. "Wind River's product reliability is high. They provide excellent product support and were eager to team with us on the technology. The integrated TMS software solution gave us the ability to offer an extensible, feature-rich, highly reliable platform in a timeframe that met our product delivery window — that's the competitive advantage."

"Manufacturers of networking equipment are being pressed to introduce new features and advanced performance, so time to market is critical," said David Fraser, group vice president and general manager of Wind River's Networks business unit. "Performance Technologies faced significant challenges in pulling together solutions from disparate, often incompatible sources. By utilizing Wind River's TMS fully integrated platform, Performance Technologies´ engineers were able to design the features their customers demanded to develop a world-class switch."

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, and Tornado are registered trademarks and How Smart Things Think is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., and ALLENTOWN, Pa. June 26, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND), and Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A) today announced a cooperative development agreement to provide integrated hardware and software support for advanced routing and switching devices. Wind River and Agere will make Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS 2.0) and other networking software from Wind River available on Agere's family of network processors and switch fabrics.

Wind River's TMS is an embedded software solution for advanced data networking equipment. Agere's family of network processor and switch fabric products is designed for carrier-class network applications, from 622 megabits per second (Mbits/s) to 40 gigabits per second (Gbits/s). Developers of networked devices will be able to take advantage of Wind River's software technology and the Agere PayloadPlus™ network processor without focusing their development time and money on hardware and software integration. This cooperative development agreement will make Wind River's TMS 2.0, WindNet™ MPLS (multi-protocol label switching), and WindNet ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) platform available to PayloadPlus customers. It builds on an existing relationship under which Agere ships Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system with many of Agere's network processor development systems.

The technology collaboration between Wind River and Agere provides mutual customers with a powerful platform that will allow developers to focus their efforts on those features of their product that provide market differentiation. The standard protocols required for a broad range of networking devices, including Ethernet switches, Internet protocol (IP) routers, MPLS routers, and ATM switches, will be available on the Agere PayloadPlus network processor reference platforms.

"A primary goal for our customers is to significantly cut their development time and focus on getting their solution to market quickly," said Dave Fraser, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Networks business unit. "Network processors represent a tremendous change in the networking marketplace. The speed and carrier-class feature set of Agere's PayloadPlus allow developers to take advantage of the flexibility that software provides. Our joint development work with Agere lets the user get right to the part of the development that adds the most value to their final product. Our enterprise and carrier networking software products integrate seamlessly for a complete solution giving customers a very versatile and powerful solution."

"This hardware and software integration will give our joint customers a more complete integrated solution that further magnifies their time-to-market competitive advantage," said Ford Tamer, general manager of Agere's network processing and switch business. "Wind River's networked software support platform, especially with its advanced routing protocols and quality of service (QoS) instrumentation, is a good complement to the wire-speed switching and routing multi-protocol capabilities of Agere's network processor family of products."

About TMS
TMS combines Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks® real-time operating system and powerful Tornado development tools with integrated switching and routing protocols and management applications. Wind River's latest release, TMS 2.0 provides advanced QoS features to support applications such as Internet telephony ("voice over IP" or "VoIP") and video conferencing. TMS 2.0 is the first off-the-shelf solution for Layer 3 IP routing. It addresses the needs of optical networking and broadband access concentrators, as well as enterprise Ethernet switches and routers.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, Tornado, and VxWorks are registered trademarks, and WindNet and How Smart Things Think are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies. Agere safe harbor statement: This release contains forward-looking statements based on information available to Agere as of the date hereof. Agere's actual results could differ materially from those results stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, completion of the distribution of Agere stock by Lucent Technologies Inc., price and product competition, keeping pace with technological change, dependence on new product development, reliance on major customers and suppliers, customer demand for our products and services, availability of manufacturing capacity, components and materials, control of costs and expenses, general industry and market conditions and growth rates and general domestic and international economic conditions including interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations. For a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see the prospectus filed by Agere with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2001. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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San Jose, Calif. (Embedded Microprocessor Forum) June 12, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced the release of version 2.1 of the Tornado® II integrated development environment (IDE) and VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) for MIPS32™ and MIPS64™ processor architectures. This product release - made possible through Wind River's MIPS Center of Excellence program - targets office automation, communications, network management, digital consumer and other markets that the MIPS architectures are well suited for. In other related news, Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM) and Alchemy Semiconductor have joined MIPS Technologies, NEC Electronics Inc. and PMC-Sierra as members of Wind River's MIPS Center of Excellence program.

Wind River's MIPS Center of Excellence combines engineering and marketing resources with semiconductor vendors to facilitate porting, optimization and distribution of Wind River's embedded software for processors based on MIPS Technologies MIPS32 and MIPS64 microprocessor cores. The program has resulted in a tightly integrated Tornado II for MIPS IDE that takes advantage of new features of the MIPS-based™ hardware including support for powerful new 64-bit MIPS cores, low-power 32-bit MIPS cores, multi-chip cores and system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. This product release is for MIPS32- and MIPS64-compliant processors from the previously mentioned semiconductor vendors, including Broadcom and Alchemy Semiconductor.

"Wind River's MIPS Center of Excellence relationships with MIPS licensees is working very effectively, as evidenced by this comprehensive product release for the already-popular MIPS32 and emerging MIPS64 architectures," said John Fogelin, vice president of Wind River's Platforms business unit. "Wind River has worked closely with the MIPS Center of Excellence members to integrate and optimize Wind River's software for both current and future versions of MIPS core architectures. As a result, developers can spend less time integrating software with hardware and focus on differentiating their products."

New features of the Tornado II IDE for MIPS include the new GNU 2.96 compiler and support for big and little endian modes. Additionally, Wind River's hardware assisted debugging tools and reference designs are available for MIPS32 architectures and will be expanding to include support for certain 64-bit architectures, including MIPS64 core licensees. The end-to-end development solution enables embedded developers to bring up new hardware, solve hardware-software integration issues, create a standard platform based on the VxWorks RTOS, and facilitates the production and test of completed products.

Broadcom and Alchemy Join MIPS Center of Excellence
Through Wind River's new Center of Excellence agreements with Broadcom and Alchemy Semiconductor, Wind River is combining engineering and marketing resources with the two semiconductor vendors to facilitate porting, optimization and distribution of Wind River software on their respective MIPS-based processors. The agreements are part of Wind River's strategy to provide full end-to-end product support for emerging MIPS-based system-on-a-chip (SOC) semiconductor core technologies. Wind River will provide support for Broadcom's Mercurian™ family of processors, the first one being the BCM12500 dual MIPS64 processor and Alchemy's Au1000 single processor MIPS32-based SOC.

Availability
Version 2.1 of Tornado II for MIPS is currently in beta and will be fully available later this summer on Windows 98 / 2000, NT and Solaris 2.7 / 2.8 Hosts. The release includes specific board support packages for NEC's Vr5432, Vr4122 and the Vr5500 processors, PMC-Sierra's RM7000A and RM5231A and RM5261A processors, and Alchemy Semiconductor's Au1000 processor, MIPS Technologies' MIPS32 4Kc™ family, MIPS64 5Kc™ as well as other MIPS32 and MIPS64 processors. Over time, Wind River will compliment these solutions with hardware assisted debugging tools, including tools to support chips from NEC, PMC-Sierra, and Alchemy Semiconductor. Wind River will have future Tornado support for the PMC-Sierra RM9000x2 dual processor, Broadcom's BCM12500 (previously SB1250) dual-core processor and MIPS Technologies' MIPS32 4KE™, MIPS64 5Kf™ and 20Kc™ processor families.

About Tornado
The Tornado IDE provides the next evolutionary step in integrated development environments ­ a visual, automated environment that makes creating applications on the VxWorks RTOS fast and easy for developers of all experience levels. Optional product support include WindView®, TrueFFS for Tornado, Wind Web Server™, SNMP, graphics support, and more to help customers with develop a wide array of applications early in the processor life cycle.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, Tornado, VxWorks, Wind Web Server and WindView are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ODVA Meeting, MIAMI, Fla., June 11, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today introduced Tornado® for Industrial Automation, the company's first integrated vertical solution for the industrial measurement and control market. The complete development solution combines Wind River's leading VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) and Tornado® integrated development environment (IDE) with the popular DeviceNet protocol stacks - simplifying and shortening the development cycle and thereby enabling customers to create highly functional and innovative industrial devices.

The announcement is to be made at the Open DeviceNet Vendor Association (ODVA) 7th Annual Meeting. ODVA manages the DeviceNet protocol, which is one of the world's leading device-level networks for industrial automation, and is used in devices such as sensors, motion control devices, displays, controllers, programmable logic controllers, actuators, and many others. According to Frank Wood, secretary and executive director of the ODVA, "More than 40 per cent of end users surveyed by independent industry analysts report choosing DeviceNet over other types of networks. Wind River's support of DeviceNet and their leading market position will provide developers of embedded industrial devices with a significant edge."

"We have been working with Wind River for many years using the VxWorks RTOS and Tornado technology," said Chiaki Itoh, general manager of Yokogawa Electric Corporation's Industrial Automation Systems business division in Tokyo. "Tornado for Industrial Automation marks a significant commitment by Wind River to address our company's industrial-specific requirements. We are looking forward to this industrial solution in order to enable us to bring products to market faster and more efficiently."

"Wind River has been a leading technology provider in the Industrial Measurement and Control market for many years with technology such as the VxWorks RTOS, the Tornado IDE, and our VxDCOM™ product," said Scot Morrison, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Automotive and Industrial business unit. "Tornado for Industrial Automation and the recently announced VxOPC solution have been designed to provide Wind River customers with integrated, industry-specific solutions that enable them to focus on their application-specific value rather than spend time trying to integrate the enabling technologies."

About Tornado for Industrial Automation
Tornado for Industrial Automation is comprised of the Tornado IDE, which includes the VxWorks RTOS, and an implementation of the DeviceNet specification and supporting CAN drivers for the VxWorks RTOS. Tornado for Industrial Automation is designed to shift the focus of embedded industrial device developers from the integration of enabling technologies to the development of the application itself. In addition, other industrial automation products such as the VxOPC development solution can also be used in conjunction with Tornado for Industrial Automation.

Product availability
Tornado for Industrial Automation will be available for the x86 target in August 2001. Additional CPU support will include PPC and ARM.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks, Tornado, VxDCOM, and How Smart Things Think are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., June 7, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced that James W. Bagley, the chairman and chief executive officer of Lam Research Corporation, was elected to the company's Board of Directors. Bagley, a 35-year veteran in the semiconductor industry, will join the six other members of the Wind River board.

"Wind River is honored to have James W. Bagley join the leadership of Wind River as a integral member of our board of directors," said Jerry Fiddler, chairman and co-founder of Wind River. "With silicon building blocks becoming more complex and varied, the lines between silicon and software are blurring. It's more important than ever for Wind River to have strong insight into the semiconductor industry. Jim's extensive knowledge of running multi-billion dollar companies in the semiconductor industry will help Wind River to grow in the years to come."

"I admire and respect Wind River's management team," said James W. Bagley, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Lam Research Corporation. "Wind River is in a market with nearly unlimited opportunity, and I am pleased to be a part of their efforts to move the company forward in the post-PC era."

Extensive Industry Experience
James W. Bagley is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lam Research Corporation (www.lamrc.com), a leading global supplier of silicon wafer processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor integrated circuits. Mr. Bagley became chief executive officer of Lam in August of 1997 upon the completion of the merger of Lam and OnTrak Systems, Inc. where he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Bagley earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University. He spent 15 years each at Texas Instruments and Applied Materials. Mr. Bagley also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Teradyne and Micron Technology, Inc.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are registered trademarks and How Smart Things Think are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., June 4, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced the general availability of VxOPC, a product aimed at the industrial measurement and control (IMC) market. Fully integrated with Wind River's leading VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), the VxOPC solution implements the OLE for Process Control® (OPC) data access server, a set of standard interfaces that makes interoperability possible between automation/control applications, field devices and business/office applications. Wind River's VxOPC product provides developers with the pre-integrated run-time components and tools to quickly deliver high-performance and advanced connectivity for the IMC market.

For industrial software manufacturers, OPC has become the de facto standard. Thomas Burke, president of the OPC Foundation (www.opcfoundation.org) commented, "Users of embedded computing products are increasingly demanding easy, seamless interconnection with other devices. The OPC foundation is pleased to have industry leaders like Wind River as members of our organization. Wind River's VxWorks RTOS implementation offers a powerful solution with all the necessary run-time components and integrated tools to facilitate and accelerate the development of OPC-based applications."

The VxOPC solution includes a data access server run-time component and associated interactive client tools, all tightly integrated with Wind River's Tornado® integrated development environment (IDE). With the VxOPC product, customers can quickly and efficiently develop industrial applications for process control, robotics, machine builders, semiconductor manufacturing, distributed control systems, discrete controllers, and other industrial devices.

"By introducing VxOPC, Wind River customers now do not have to obtain an OPC server from another automation supplier and go through the integration hassles," said ARC Advisory Group Senior Analyst Dick Slansky. "VxOPC, when combined with the current product offerings from Wind River, provides for a complete industrial automation control development suite for the embedded environment. Wind River is clearly focusing on the industrial measurement and control sector with VxOPC, and with this addition, nicely rounds out their capability to offer automation solutions for both process and discrete control applications."

"Wind River is a leading provider of enabling technology for the industrial market with our VxWorks RTOS, Tornado IDE, VxDCOM™ technology and other important embedded development tools," said Scot Morrison, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Automotive and Industrial business unit. "By adding VxOPC to our extensive product portfolio, industrial customers have an ideal set of tools to quickly create reliable and innovative industrial devices."

About VxOPC
The VxOPC product is Wind River's implementation of the OPC specification for the VxWorks RTOS. VxOPC includes an implementation of the OPC data access server and an interactive client tool. VxOPC is tightly integrated with Wind River's Tornado IDE, VxWorks RTOS, and VxDCOM technology, reducing developers time-to-market. VxOPC is used in IMC applications, including process control, robotics, machine builders, semiconductor manufacturing, distributed control systems, discrete controllers, and test and measurement equipment.

Product Specifications/Availability
The VxOPC implementation is available on Wind River's Tornado II development platform. It requires Tornado II IDE, VxDCOM, MSVC 5.0, or Visual Studio, and a Microsoft Windows NT™ host Supported target systems include PowerPC, x86, ARM, MIPS, 68K, CPU32, and Sparc architecture. The VxOPC will be available in June 2001.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks, Tornado, VxDCOM, and How Smart Things Think are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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