ALAMEDA, CA – September 17, 2009 – Wind River today announced that Wind River Linux 3.0 for MIPS® architectures complies with the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 specification from the Linux Foundation, a critical requirement for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets. This includes MIPS-based multicore processors from Cavium Networks and RMI Corporation, and also extends existing CGL 4.0 support for PowerPC and x86 architecture-based processors from Freescale and Intel.

"Wind River already has demonstrated its strong commitment to providing embedded Linux on MIPS-based architectures," said Art Swift, vice president of marketing, MIPS Technologies. "Supporting the carrier-grade specification on Wind River Linux is another important milestone. This opens up new possibilities for our many customers in the networking and communications markets to create first-class solutions for mission-critical workloads, while achieving the ever-increasing need for high performance."

By registering the Wind River Linux 3.0 distribution as CGL 4.0 compliant for MIPS architectures, Wind River provides customers carrier-grade functionality for a comprehensive portfolio of chip architectures. Carrier Grade Linux has become a key requirement for companies not only in the network equipment market, increasingly for 3G and 4G network infrastructures, but also in other markets where stringent availability, scalability, and service response characteristics are mission-critical requirements. Wind River Linux 3.0 with CGL 4.0 compliance for MIPS architectures provides a set of pre-configured system profiles for a variety of vertical markets including aerospace and defense, industrial, medical and networking.

"As a preferred partner in supporting network transformation for operators worldwide, developing All-IP based carrier-grade network elements is essential to achieving five-nines reliability for mission critical applications," said Bruno Zhang, director of Central Base Platform, Huawei. "Utilizing proven and tested software that readily meets carrier-grade specification as defined by the industry, while being supported across a broad portfolio of processors, offers network equipment providers incredible advantages of choice, flexibility, and efficiency."

"Networking products using the MIPS architecture are delivering significant packet processing advantages in critical areas within the network," said YJ Kim, senior director, Networking and Communications Division, Cavium Networks. "An extensive set of joint customers utilize Wind River's software solutions along with our MIPS-based OCTEON multicore processors with unmatched scalability and performance in a number of applications. Adding the carrier-grade functionality for MIPS will help our joint customers develop highly reliable products contributing to the always-on requirement of today's network."

"Global telecom equipment providers are rapidly adopting MIPS-based solutions for high-performance, application-specific products throughout the network," said Mark Litvack, director of business development, RMI Corporation. "RMI's XLR and XLS multi-core and multi-threaded processors have been integrated into solutions with both VxWorks and Wind River Linux, and together offer the ultimate in features and flexibility and provide unsurpassed performance per unit of power in carrier-grade, enterprise and other products. The use of RMI's XLR and XLS processors in combination with Wind River's software, provides a unique solution that exceeds the demands of next-generation wireless network."

Wind River introduced Wind River Linux 3.0 in March 2009, including compliance with the CGL 4.0 for PowerPC and x86 architecture-based processors from Freescale and Intel. In July 2009, VDC Research Group named Wind River the embedded Linux market leader. Wind River achieved the market share lead in 2008 with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue, according to VDC's 2009 Linux in the Embedded Systems Market report. Wind River entered the Linux business in 2004 to complement its market-leading, proprietary operating system, VxWorks.

Availability
Wind River Linux 3.0 distribution registered as CGL 4.0 compliant for MIPS architectures is now available to customers worldwide. Additional details about Wind River Linux 3.0 and Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 are available at www.windriver.com/announces/cgl4/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), 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.

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ALAMEDA, CA — September 15, 2009 — Wind River today launched the Wind River Partner Validation Program for the industrial and medical markets with initial partners Acontis Technologies, Esterel Technologies, KW-Software, and Softing AG. Partners in the program will provide their software solutions integrated and validated with the latest releases of Wind River's industry leading operating systems, VxWorks and Wind River Linux. These partner software solutions are ideally suited for the control automation, process automation, power and energy, transportation, and medical market segments.

By working together to validate Wind River's hardware and software solutions with leading partner software, Wind River and its partners are together providing a pre-validated software solution stack that directly addresses integration costs, time-to-market, and long-term support. Also included in this pre-validated software stack are the most acknowledged and accepted standards, including:

• PROFINET, an open Ethernet-based real-time communication standard, in various scalable building blocks for different requirements; and


• An IEC 61131-3 PLCopen-compliant PLC runtime environment standard for machine configuration, commissioning, and engineering.

"Wind River has forged strong partnerships with these industrial and medical market leaders to bring customers a validated software stack that meets the requirements of specific market segments," said Jens Wiegand, general manager, Industrial and Medical, Wind River. "Wind River's Partner Validation Program offers validated software components and an ecosystem with a clear commitment to industry connectivity, vertical application stacks, and tools to help solve critical business issues so customers can reduce overall time spent on integration and have their products completed more rapidly at a lower cost."

Wind River's software partners will integrate, verify, and validate the various software components and will provide their software, testing, and commercial support to customers. These integrated and validated solutions offer longevity and lifecycle support, accelerating time-to-market and reducing development and integration efforts, creating a rich environment to meet the increasingly pressing requirements of device manufacturers.

As part of the program, the following partners will integrate and validate their software with Wind River's market-leading embedded operating systems:

• Acontis Technologies: EtherCAT real-time Ethernet.


• KW-Software: PROFINET and ProConOS IEC 61131-3 runtime and programming systems.


• Softing AG: OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) Factory Gateway solutions.


• Esterel Technologies: SCADE Suite model-based design (certification and non-certification versions).

Wind River introduced the Wind River Partner Validation Program in May 2009 initially targeting the networking and telecoms industry and with initial partners 6WIND, Continuous Computing, GoAhead Software, Oracle, RADVISION, and Tail-f Systems.

More information about the Wind River Partner Validation Program and solutions for the industrial and medical markets are available at www.windriver.com/partner-validation.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), 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.

SUPPORTING PARTNER QUOTES

Acontis Technologies
"Wind River's Partner Validation Program offers a rich software ecosystem for the critically important industrial and medical markets," said Christoph Widmann, managing director, Acontis Technologies. "Acontis is a committed initial partner and we are leveraging the Wind River industrial platforms to provide a pre-validated solution for our EtherCAT real-time Ethernet communication. Our customers will greatly benefit from the reduced development time and costs resulting from this partnership."

KW-Software
"KW-Software and many of its customers have been long-time users of Wind River's platforms," said Andreas Orzelski, CEO, KW-Software. "Wind River's Partner Validation Program is a great way to provide an optimized, out-of-the-box pre-validation of our ProConOS IEC 61131-3 SoftPLC and open PROFINET solutions, giving our customers a competitive edge with faster time-to-market, lower integration costs, and comprehensive long-term support."

Softing AG
"Thanks to the Partner Validation Program, Softing will offer customers a pre-validated OPC-UA technology on a proven platform provided by Wind River, greatly accelerating customer product deployments," said Wolfgang Hopfes, head of product marketing, Industrial Automation, Softing AG. "Previously, our customers would be required to buy solution artifacts separately and integrate them individually. This was often a hassle and any issues with integration and upgraded versions would be the customers' responsibility."

Esterel Technologies
"Esterel Technologies is a leader in providing model-based development and verification tools for mission- and safety-critical embedded systems," said Jim McElroy, vice president, Corporate Marketing and Business Development, Esterel Technologies. "The stringent validation program standards and the opportunity to work with such a cooperating ecosystem are allowing us to seamlessly and securely integrate our SCADE Suite to generate correct-by-construction code for Wind River’s certification platforms."

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KAWASAKI, Japan-September 10, 2009, ALAMEDA, Calif. (U.S.A.)-September 9, 2009 -- NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), the leading provider of semiconductor solutions, and Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced an expanded collaboration to jointly develop Linux solutions for the market of portable devices, such as multimedia players and mobile televisions. As the first jointly developed solution, NEC Electronics today introduced a new software development kit (SDK) based on Wind River Linux technology for the company's EMMA Mobile™ 1, an optimal system LSI chip for the market of portable devices to process audio and visual (A/V) data. Additional SDKs for EMMA series products based on Wind River Linux technology targeting digital multimedia consumer devices are expected to follow in late 2009 and in 2010.

The SDK will be used in conjunction with a hardware development kit to allow designers to test and evaluate the system performance of EMMA Mobile 1 as well as to develop middleware and software for the system. Customers will be able to engage Wind River Professional Services to transition their Linux solutions to Wind River's commercial-grade Linux, backed by worldwide support and a comprehensive partner ecosystem.

NEC Electronics has been focusing on steadily expanding its offerings in the digital consumer area, with a particular emphasis on portable audio-visual systems such as multimedia players and mobile televisions. Having launched the first EMMA Mobile chip in November 2008, the company has been providing customers with a solution to design products with robust multimedia processing capabilities at a low power consumption level. The new SDK combines Wind River Linux technology with NEC Electronics' device drivers and media components. Designers can also leverage the new platform for middleware development to expand it to a wide range of applications and markets.

"NEC Electronics has been providing middleware solutions indispensable in system development through our platformOViA™ partner program with 39 business partners having excellent technological expertise. We're strengthening our relationship with Wind River to provide customers of portable A/V devices with a comprehensive enablement suite designed to address customer requirements for expanded Linux OS support," said Masao Hirasawa, general manager, SoC Systems Division, NEC Electronics Corporation. "The jointly developed enablement platform offers the development tools that customers need, acting as a solution to design high-performance, competitive products with incredibly short time-to-market."

"By selecting to build their SDK using the Wind River distribution, NEC Electronics can offer its customers a very robust out-of-the-box experience, while providing a clear transition path to a market-leading commercial Linux platform," said Vincent Rerolle, senior vice president and general manager, Linux Product Division, Wind River.

In July 2009, VDC Research Group named Wind River the embedded Linux market leader. Wind River achieved the market share lead in 2008 with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue, according to VDC's 2009 Linux in the Embedded Systems Market report. Wind River entered the Linux business in 2004 to complement its market-leading, proprietary operating system, VxWorks.

Pricing and Availability
Samples of NEC Electronics' new SDK are available now. More information about NEC Electronics' EMMA Mobile products can be found at http://www.necel.com/mobile/en/emma_mobile/.
(Pricing and availability are subject to change without notice.)

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), 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.

EMMA Mobile is a trademark or registered trademark of NEC Electronics Corporation in Japan, Germany, United States of America, and other countries. Other names of products and services mentioned in this text are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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ALAMEDA, CA — September 8, 2009 — Wind River today announced that it will develop and market a software platform optimized on the ECONA ARM-based energy efficient processors from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, storage, wireless, video and security applications. The Wind River and ECONA CNS3XXX-based solution will target connected broadband home and small office CPE (customer premise equipment) devices that deliver dynamic IP-centric services and support high-definition video and audio, Internet telephony, remote configuration, monitoring, and home automation.

As a Cavium PACE (Partnership to Accelerate Customer End-solutions) member, Wind River will build upon its successful strategic business and engineering relationship with Cavium in the network infrastructure market to deliver highly optimized and targeted solutions for the fast growing connected home market. Customers will be able to build end-to-end network elements and consumer device applications utilizing Wind River's proven VxWorks and Wind River Linux run-time platforms and advanced networking technologies with Cavium Networks' high-performance OCTEON and ECONA product lines.

"The emerging all IP-based next-generation network is enabling a magnitude of new broadband services for the connected home," said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer, Wind River. "By extending our long-standing relationship with Cavium and heritage in the telecommunications market, we will bring highly optimized and targeted device solutions to the connected home market."

"Cavium Networks is a leading provider of broadband home gateways and high-performance systems. The new ECONA CNS3XXX dual-core ARM processor line with advanced hardware acceleration will enable service providers and consumer equipment manufactures to build low-power and high-performance gateways and devices," said Sandeep Vij, general manager and vice president, Cavium Networks. "By collaborating with Wind River, we will provide our joint customers with a tightly integrated, feature rich, and proven high-performance software and hardware solution that will enable the next generation of connected home services."

The recently announced Cavium Networks next-generation ECONA family of processors offers single and dual ARM11 MPCore processors, a rich set of integrated hardware accelerators and a range of I/Os for glueless voice, video and data connectivity. Sophisticated power management techniques enable super low-power operation starting at less than 1 Watt. The ECONA CNS3XXX family is targeted for applications including FTTH broadband gateways, network attached storage appliances, multimedia picture frames, media and print servers, IP cameras and wireless access points.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), 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/.

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Global Corporate Communications

 

ALAMEDA, CA — September 2, 2009 — Wind River today announced
the immediate availability of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7, a
development solution for building and deploying multi-platform, highly usable
graphical user interfaces (GUI) for embedded applications. The new graphics
suite, the result of Wind River's acquisition of Tilcon Software in February
2009, further extends Wind River's software development portfolio, features
tighter integration with VxWorks and is the first version of the Tilcon Graphics
Suite to provide standard support for Wind River Linux.

In today's competitive device marketplace, the end-user experience serves as
a key point of differentiation for manufacturers, and often dictates device
adoption rates and company sales. However, traditional approaches for developing
embedded GUIs are time consuming, costly and engineering-driven. Specifically,
interface development involves significant amounts of complex coding, creating
costly testing and validation efforts on products for even the most minor user
interface update.

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 allows manufacturers to more easily
produce rich user interfaces for their devices and at a lower cost than
traditional GUI software. This process is driven by the solution's two unique
components:

• Tilcon Interface Development Tool (IDT) — Tilcon IDT offers an innovative
  and agile host simulation approach to GUI design and development, allowing users
  to design, prototype, simulate and test an embedded GUI early in development
  without coding and before writing any product code.


• Tilcon GUI Engine — A run-time platform that runs on the device's operating
  system and integrates all device applications, hardware and software with the
  developed user interface, running applications and processes while displaying
  the results for the user. The GUI engine allows graphics changes to be made
  throughout the process without impacting the underlying application code,
  reducing time-to-market.


 

As part of its integration into the company's product portfolio, the new
Tilcon Graphic Suite now offers target support packages (TSP) for VxWorks 6.7
and Wind River Linux 3.0. When combined with either of these industry leading
platforms, the Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite provides customers and partners
with improved usability and workflow, along with many other benefits that come
with adopting a single, fully integrated software development solution and
support from a single supplier. Additional highlights of Wind River Tilcon
Graphics Suite 5.7 include:

• Expanded host support including Windows Vista and Linux;


• Broad set of comprehensive tutorials;


• Tighter integration with other Wind River products with a new Wind River
  Workbench application template, updated Tilcon Scalability Tool integrated with
  Wind River Workbench and a TSP for VxWorks Simulator; and


• Consistency with other Wind River products by using Wind River licensing and
  installer.


 

"With the advent of less expensive display hardware and more capable
processing power, graphics is moving from a high-end requirement into mainstream
applications in various vertical segments," said Marc Brown, vice president of
marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. "With
complementary customers, partners and target vertical markets, Wind River made a
strong commitment to quickly integrate Tilcon's embedded graphics solutions into
Wind River's product portfolio. Delivering Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7
within six months of the acquisition exemplifies this commitment, and continues
to strengthen and extend Wind River's value proposition as an embedded vendor
that can deliver the full spectrum of device software requirements."

Additional details about Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.7 are available
at www.windriver.com/products/graphics/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), 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.

 

 

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