ALAMEDA, CA — June 23, 2009 — Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today introduced its standards-based Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1 with extended support for Freescale, Intel and RMI processors. Wind River On-Chip Debugging is a comprehensive development tools solution that includes Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging, a collection of software tools based on the Eclipse framework; Wind River ICE 2, a high-performance, multicore-capable JTAG debug unit; and Wind River Probe, an entry level, portable JTAG debug unit.

Currently the Wind River On-Chip Debugging solution supports a wide range of processor architectures including ARM, MIPS, Power Architecture, and ColdFire. With the introduction of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1, Wind River will extend support for Freescale's QorlQ P2020, Intel Atom, and RMI XLRÒ and XLSÒ processors, among other devices based on ARM, MIPS and Power architectures. This will provide customers with increased effectiveness in designing and debugging, expanded multicore support for up to 16 cores, and additional choice when evaluating industry leading processor architectures.

Wind River is extending the Wind River On-Chip Debugging solution to Freescale's QorIQ P2020 processor, a member of the company's latest generation of multicore embedded communications platforms. Additional Freescale device support includes the i.MX35 applications processor for automotive, consumer, and industrial markets, the MPC8536E PowerQUICC III device for gigahertz-class processing within IP network and advanced media processing applications, and the MPC560x processor designed for automotive body and chassis applications.

"With its rich feature set and comprehensive multicore support, Wind River's on-chip debugging solution is well suited to support customer development needs for the QorIQ P2020 device and other Freescale processors," said Ravi Swaminathan, director of software ecosystem alliances at Freescale. "Wind River's newest debugging technology gives Freescale customers greater visibility into the on-chip processes of our devices, thereby simplifying development and speeding time-to-market."

Wind River is expanding its processor coverage to include Intel Architecture. Support is being introduced for Intel Atom processors targeted at a variety of low-power devices such as medical, industrial, and consumer devices. Wind River will support additional Intel processors later in 2009.

Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1 also offers the most advanced multicore support for complex RMI XLR and XLS processors, debugging up to 8 cores and 4 threads per core simultaneously, as well as the ability to debug RMI's RMIOS execution environment.

"As RMI's multicore multi-threaded 64-bit MIPS-based processors continue to lead in performance and as the processors become more complex in their architectures and capabilities, our customers depend on world-class support and debugging technology to simplify their development process," said Mark Litvack, director of business development at RMI. "The Wind River and RMI collaboration provides our common customers with RMI-specific features, flexibility and the assurance they need to build the highest performance multicore and multi-threaded networking and security solutions."

The Wind River On-Chip Debugging solution is targeted for all phases of the development lifecycle, from board bring-up to device driver development, kernel stabilization, and system integration, and is extensible for customers to easily add support for additional device architectures and processors.

Availability
Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1 with extended support for Freescale, Intel and RMI will be available in July 2009. Additional details are available at www.windriver.com/announces/workbench-ocd-3.1.1.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the future availability, features and benefits of products. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements. Details about risks that may affect Wind River and its business are included in Wind River's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on information as of the date of this press release, and Wind River does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.

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ALAMEDA, CA – June 16, 2009 – Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today introduced VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0, the latest addition to the industry-leading VxWorks product portfolio, demonstrating Wind River's commitment to the security needs of the aerospace and defense industries.

VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 provides customers with a robust operating system foundation and an award-winning development environment to build multilevel secure (MLS) systems. The platform includes a VxWorks runtime environment, allowing Wind River customers to leverage their in-house VxWorks experts as well as legacy VxWorks application code within new multilevel secure systems, and a high-assurance runtime environment for development of guards, downgraders, and other components requiring the highest security.

The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Raytheon Company are among the companies working with VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0.

"The high performance and mature functionality of VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 is based on seven years of customer experience with our time- and space-partitioning operating system for avionics implemented in more than 160 projects worldwide," said Marc Brown, vice president of marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. "Customers that will develop on VxWorks MILS will benefit materially from the reduction of development time, cost, and risk that our solution offers, while also remaining confident knowing they have a comprehensive, secure, and stable solution backed by industry leader Wind River."

The VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 features:

• VxWorks MILS separation kernel, developed to conform to the NIAP-validated U.S. Government Protection Profile for Separation Kernels in Environments Requiring High Robustness, Version 1.03 (SKPP);


• Direct support for high-assurance customer applications in partitions, such as guards and downgraders, using the High Assurance Environment, including a simple separation kernel interface and secure inter-partition communication (SIPC);


• VxWorks Guest Operating System in partitions, enabling direct porting of existing VxWorks applications;


• Wind River industry-specific networking technology stacks including IPv4, UDP, and TCP;


• An extensive offering of targeted drivers and partner middleware; and


• Wind River Workbench, the leading Eclipse-based development suite.


 

VxWorks MILS 2.0 is officially listed as "In Evaluation" by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), for conformance to the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 6+ and High Robustness. An EAL6+, High Robustness-certified operating system is designed to be "a highly robust foundation for system services and applications in mission-critical systems" according to the SKPP.

VxWorks MILS 2.0 is built using Type-1 hypervisor technology, derived from the Wind River Hypervisor product, also launched today. Wind River Hypervisor provides high- performance virtualization for single and multicore processors across a range of vertical market segments. This approach in the VxWorks MILS architecture maximizes performance (by minimizing partitioning overhead), maximizes determinism (by reducing partition jitter), and improves fault isolation and recovery (by isolating guest operating systems and associated applications). The virtualization provided by the hypervisor, coupled with the security properties of the entire VxWorks MILS separation kernel, results in a MILS architecture designed to provide a high level of assurable security.

Availability
Wind River's VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 will be available on June 26, 2009 on Power Architecture MPC8641D on the Curtiss-Wright high performance VPX6-185 single board computer. For more information, visit: www.windriver.com/products/platforms/vxworks-mils/.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the future availability, features and benefits of products. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements. Details about risks that may affect Wind River and its business are included in Wind River's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on information as of the date of this press release, and Wind River does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

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ALAMEDA, CA — June 16, 2009 — Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced the immediate availability of Wind River Hypervisor, a key pillar of Wind River’s comprehensive Multicore Software Solution for device development. Wind River Hypervisor is a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor, which supports virtualization on single and multicore processors. It provides integration with Wind River's industry leading operating systems (VxWorks and Wind River Linux) and supports other operating systems. The Wind River Workbench development tools suite has been extended to support developing software that runs on the Wind River Hypervisor.

Wind River Hypervisor enables virtualization for devices across a broad range of market segments, including aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer devices, industrial, and networking. Within these markets, embedded developers are adopting hypervisors to enable the replacement of multiple boards or CPUs with a single board and/or a single CPU, create innovative new devices that leverage multiple operating systems, and reduce complexity when integrating multicore processors. The benefits of using the Wind River Hypervisor include reduced hardware costs and power consumption, opportunity for innovation, and accelerated time-to-market.

"Wind River Hypervisor brings virtualization to devices so embedded developers can achieve improved device functionality on smaller form factors," said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer, Wind River. "We're responding to significant market demand by extending our industry-leading multicore software solution to include a high-performance hypervisor for virtualization."

Wind River makes it easier for customers to consolidate their systems and adopt multicore technology in devices by using key features in Wind River Hypervisor, including:

• Support for single and multicore processors;


• Focus on real-time aspects such as performance, latency, determinism and minimal footprint;


• Protection between operating systems and cores, including starting, stopping, reloading operating systems to increase reliability; and


• Highly optimized silicon-specific hardware support.

"We expect that an increasing number of embedded engineering teams will look toward virtualization as a critical development solution," said Stephen Balacco, director of the Embedded Software and Tools Practice at VDC Research Group. "Wind River's announcement of its hypervisor indicates that they are closely aligned with the direction the industry is heading and the potential needs of their customers going forward."

The introduction of Wind River Hypervisor enhances Wind River's comprehensive Multicore Software Solution, which consists of three pillars:

• Operating system choice including a high-performance integration with the industry's leading real-time operating system VxWorks and commercial-grade Linux platform Wind River Linux, and the ability to integrate other operating systems into the same system;


• A broad and flexible set of multicore software configurations with support for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and supervised AMP, and virtualization; and


• A unified development environment based on Wind River Workbench for configuring, building, diagnosing, and analyzing the software for hypervisor-based systems, including the VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems and the applications running on these operating systems.

Earlier this year, Wind River introduced VxWorks 6.7, which allows system designers to select the optimal multicore design configuration, AMP or SMP, to deliver next-generation devices with higher performance while maintaining or reducing power consumption. Now, Wind River Hypervisor enables systems designers to use a supervised AMP configuration that makes an AMP system easier to configure.

Separately, Wind River also announced today VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0, the latest addition to the industry-leading VxWorks product portfolio, which leverages Wind River Hypervisor technology to provide virtualization. The virtualization provided by the hypervisor, coupled with the security properties of the entire VxWorks MILS separation kernel, results in a MILS architecture designed to provide a high level of assurable security.

Additional details on Wind River Hypervisor are available at
www.windriver.com/announces/hypervisor/ and blogs.windriver.com.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the future availability, features and benefits of products. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements. Details about risks that may affect Wind River and its business are included in Wind River's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on information as of the date of this press release, and Wind River does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 4, 2009 – Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate. Wind River is a leading software vendor in embedded devices, and will become part of Intel’s strategy to grow its processor and software presence outside the traditional PC and server market segments into embedded systems and mobile handheld devices. Wind River will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel and continue with its current business model of supplying leading-edge products and services to its customers worldwide.

"This acquisition will bring us complementary, market-leading software assets and an incredibly talented group of people to help us continue to grow our embedded systems and mobile device capabilities," said Renee James, Intel vice president and general manager of the company’s Software and Services Group. "Wind River has thousands of customers in a wide range of markets, and now both companies will be better positioned to meet growth opportunities in these areas."

"Our combination of strengths will be of great benefit to Wind River’s existing and future customers," said Ken Klein, Wind River Chairman, president and CEO. "As a wholly owned subsidiary, Wind River will more tightly align its software expertise to Intel’s platforms to speed the pace of progress and software innovation. We remain committed to continuing to provide leading solutions across multiple hardware architectures and delivering the same world-class support to which our customers have grown accustomed."

The acquisition will deliver to Intel robust software capabilities in embedded systems and mobile devices, both important growth areas for the company. Embedded systems and mobile devices include smart phones, mobile Internet devices, other consumer electronics (CE) devices, in-car "info-tainment" systems and other automotive areas, networking equipment, aerospace and defense, energy and thousands of other devices. This multi-billion dollar market opportunity is increasingly becoming connected and more intelligent, requiring supporting applications and services as well as full Internet functionality.

The board of directors of Wind River has unanimously approved the transaction. It is expected to close this summer, subject to certain regulatory approvals and other conditions specified in the definitive agreement. Upon completion of the acquisition, Wind River will report into Intel’s Software and Services Group, headed by Renee James.

Wind River – A Leader in Embedded Software
As an Intel subsidiary, Wind River will continue to develop innovative, commercial-grade software platforms that support multiple hardware architectures that are optimized for the needs of its many embedded and mobile customers. The acquisition will boost Wind River’s Intel-architecture focused sales as it gains access to the company’s technology investments, brand, employees and global sales force.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is a publicly held company with headquarters in Alameda, Calif., with more than 1,600 employees and operations in more than 15 countries. During its fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2009, Wind River reported annual revenues of $359.7 million.

Wind River develops operating systems, middleware (software found between an OS and software application), and software design tools for a variety of embedded computing systems. Its main products include VxWorks, the market-leading proprietary and multicore-ready real-time operating system, and commercial-grade Linux software platforms. The company also provides design services and software expertise, including custom-built solutions, development tools and device testing products. With thousands of customers, Wind River technology is relied upon by most major computer and networking communications companies, and used by corporations and government agencies such as Alcatel-Lucent, BMW, Boeing, Bombardier Transportation, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NASA, Sony, Verizon and many more.

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product. Founded in 1981, Wind River has its headquarters in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

 

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