ALAMEDA, Calif., February 9, 2010 — Wind River today released an updated version of Wind River Hypervisor, its embedded virtualization solution for single and multicore processors. The new Wind River Hypervisor 1.1 release supports the latest Intel® processors and enables new inter-virtual machine communication capabilities. Additionally, debugging of virtual boards is now supported by the latest version of Wind River On-Chip Debugging.

Wind River Hypervisor makes it easier for customers to consolidate systems and adopt virtualization and multicore technology in embedded devices. New features of Wind River Hypervisor include:

• Support for the latest Intel® microarchitecture codename Nehalem-based processors, such as the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as Intel® Core™ i5 processor and Intel Core™ i7 processor utilizing advanced virtualization hardware assist capabilities.


• Integration with Wind River's industry leading operating systems, including the latest versions of VxWorks and Wind River Linux, while also supporting other operating systems for greater flexibility.


• Additional capabilities for inter-virtual machine communication, including support for MIPC (multicore/multi-OS interprocess communication), and virtual network and serial ports.


• When used in conjunction with recently released Wind River On-Chip Debugging 3.2, optimized for development of multicore, multi-OS and virtualized environments, developers can debug the most complex system-level issues such as race conditions, memory corruption and core synchronization.


 

Wind River plans to broaden processor support for existing processor architectures, along with introducing additional processor architectures, including Freescale QorIQ, to Wind River Hypervisor throughout this year.

"Wind River is mitigating the risk for embedded development teams migrating to multicore architectures. Our product portfolio supports multicore and virtualization using leading operating systems of today such as VxWorks and Wind River Linux, supported by Wind River Hypervisor," said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer, Wind River. "The breadth of Wind River's portfolio mitigates customer risk by providing integrated solutions supporting a broad choice of operating system configurations (SMP/AMP/virtualized). This allows customers to focus on perfecting their software architecture and creating innovative and differentiated devices."

Multicore and virtualization are changing the way the embedded device market develops next-generation devices by providing more processing power, while lowering energy consumption, which can lead to a dramatic reduction in bill-of-material cost. First launched in June 2009, Wind River Hypervisor allows device software developers to take advantage of multicore and virtualization to configure unicore and multicore processors quickly and easily, thereby decreasing time-to-market for next-generation devices.

"Embedded engineering teams, across industries such as manufacturing, transportation, telecommunications and consumer devices, are increasingly looking towards virtualization as a critical development solution. Virtualization, combined with multicore-based architectures, creates a unified processing entity for space- and cost-constrained devices," said Dirk Finstel, chief technology officer, Kontron. "For developers looking to build differentiated systems featuring multiple operating systems or multicore processors, Wind River Hypervisor is the type of flexible, easily configurable and adaptable solution developers need today. Kontron will continue to leverage its strategic relationship with Wind River to help the developer community build and bring devices to market quickly and gain a competitive edge."

Wind River Hypervisor is a type 1 embedded hypervisor featuring a small footprint, minimal latency for device access, plus deterministic capabilities and optimizations for maximum performance. Wind River Hypervisor supports a variety of different processor architectures, taking advantage of hardware virtualization support when applicable. Embedded developers are utilizing 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 and hence risk when integrating multicore processors. For more information, please visit www.windriver.com/products/hypervisor/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif. with offices in more than 15 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or blogs.windriver.com.

 

 

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Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 5, 2010 — Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, today announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation's acquisition of Virtutech signed earlier this week. Virtutech, founded in 1998, is based in San Jose, Calif. and operates a development center in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wind River will sell and support Virtutech's flagship development platform, Simics, as a stand-alone product and will continue to support all current architectures including ARM, Intel, MIPS and PowerPC. Simics will allow Wind River to offer a market-leading virtual systems development solution in a growing market segment of virtualization and simulation tools for device software development.

"The addition of Virtutech's development platforms to our product line will allow Wind River to offer greater value to customers across the entire product lifecycle and deepen current relationships with our broad set of silicon partners," said Ken Klein, president, Wind River. "Time-to-market remains the single most challenging issue that sophisticated electronic equipment manufacturers need to address and ultimately control in order to remain competitive. With the addition of the Simics products, Wind River adds a key solution to further help customers improve time-to-market, as system complexity and ever more stringent demands upon overall system quality rapidly increase."

"Through our long-standing partnership with Wind River, it became evident that both companies shared a vision of how we can help the electronic systems market rethink how it goes about complex product development by deploying virtual platforms," said John Lambert, CEO, Virtutech. "Time and again, Virtutech has helped customers and partners improve time-to-market by enabling the full sweep of systems development activities to take place on a virtual platform, freeing them up to apply new and innovative ways of running systems development projects. By combining with Wind River, we now have the opportunity to dramatically accelerate the spread of this key market trend and to bring the benefits of virtual platforms to a broader audience."

Simics provides binary-compatible hardware simulations that operate completely within a virtualized environment running on standard laptop or desktop PCs. This strategy allows OEMs to undertake critical software development activities on a virtual platform, independently of any hardware development schedules, semiconductor availability constraints or other limitations. This also allows semiconductor manufacturers to redefine complex system-on-chip development with greater ecosystem support and customer engagement. Virtutech therefore enables customers to manage complexity, drive improved quality and achieve higher productivity, all while lowering capital expenditure and shortening total development time.

Acquired by Intel last year, 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 is used by corporations and government agencies such as Alcatel-Lucent, BMW, Boeing, Bombardier Transportation, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NASA, Sony, Verizon and many more.

Intel's acquisition of privately-held Virtutech is expected to be completed this quarter. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif. with offices in more than 15 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or blogs.windriver.com.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif., February 2, 2010 – Wind River today announced the immediate availability of its latest suite of development tools, including Wind River Workbench 3.2, Wind River On-Chip Debugging 3.2 and Wind River Compiler 5.8, that can help a broad range of customers, including those in the automotive, industrial, and networking market segments, reduce device software development cycles, eliminate project delays and accelerate time-to-market. Wind River's development tools enable greater choice and flexibility for customers, whether they choose to develop systems based on Wind River's VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems or use their own choice of operating system.

"While Wind River is best known for its operating systems, we have been providing our customers with a rich set of development tools and support for many years," said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer, Wind River, and original creator of the Diab compiler. "The embedded device market is continuously evolving and a one-size-fits-all development tools approach is limiting. We are committed to delivering innovative development tools to support both our Wind River and non-Wind River operating systems while providing a level of integration, services and support not possible from the many smaller companies in the embedded tools market."

Wind River Workbench
Wind River Workbench is a fully integrated end-to-end, open standards-based collection of tools for device software design, development, debugging, testing and management for VxWorks and Wind River Linux. Workbench 3.2 supports the latest versions of VxWorks and Wind River Linux and provides the foundation for Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.2. Workbench 3.2 is based on the open industry standard Eclipse 3.5 IDE which enables integration with a multitude of third-party and in-house developed tools. In 2008, Wind River Workbench was awarded Best Commercial Eclipse-Based Developer Tool by the Eclipse Foundation.

Wind River On-Chip Debugging
Wind River On-Chip Debugging is an extensible JTAG solution that simplifies the entire embedded development lifecycle and optimizes developer efficiency. Wind River On-Chip Debugging consists of the Workbench On-Chip Debugging IDE, which powers a choice of two hardware-based debug units: the high-performance, multicore-capable Wind River ICE 2 and the entry-level USB-based Wind River Probe. Wind River On-Chip Debugging supports a wide range of target operating systems on the latest 32-bit and 64-bit processors based on ARM, Coldfire, Intel, MIPS, and PowerPC architectures.

Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.2 is optimized for development of multicore, multi-OS, and virtualized environments, and debugging the most complex system-level issues such as deadlocks, memory corruption, and core synchronization. Enhancements include the ability to visualize and perform run-control operations on multiple target systems, CPU cores, and kernel objects such as threads, tasks, and processes within a single windowed environment. Wind River ICE 2 and Wind River Probe utilize Wind River's JTAG acceleration technology, which optimizes use of the JTAG interface bandwidth resulting in a highly responsive and efficient debug experience.

"As one of the world's largest producers of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid-electric automobiles and medium duty trucks, we’re continuously developing new high-power, high-energy, compact, and lightweight battery systems," said Michael Trader, software/systems manager, Compact Power, Inc. "Our technology is key to building new hybrid and electric vehicles. To meet our customers rapidly changing needs, we’re under pressure to bring these battery systems to market quickly and need a development tools supplier that gives us confidence to meet our deadlines. Wind River came through with a cost-effective, integrated tools environment, including Workbench and Wind River Compiler, and is backing it up with world-class support."

Wind River Compiler
Wind River Compiler, formerly known as the Diab compiler, is an OS agnostic tool suite, including a C/C++ compiler, an assembler, a linker, ANSI C and C++ libraries, and an instruction set simulator. It is the most reliable and mature compiler in the industry, with a proven track record for generating compact and highly optimized code for thousands of designs and millions of devices using a wide variety of processor architectures. Diab compiler technology is widely used in the most demanding and mission-critical applications, such as automotive under-the-hood, industrial and aerospace and defense systems.

Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.2 and Wind River Compiler 5.8 add support for a multitude of new processors, including the Power Architecture e200 core-based automotive controllers from STMicroelectronics and Freescale, select Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Core™2 Duo processors targeted for a wide range of embedded applications, and Freescale QorIQ P4080 Communications Processors targeted for high-performance networking applications. Additional new processor support includes Cavium Networks ECONA processors, Freescale i.MX51 and i.MX25 multimedia application processors, and RMI® Alchemy Au1300 media processors.

Wind River offers an integrated solution for debugging and compiling, and is a one-stop shop for customers in need of support. For the fourth consecutive year, Wind River received certification under the Service Capability and Performance (SCP) Support Standard, a standard that measures an organization’s capability to deliver world-class customer support.

Availability and Support
Wind River Workbench 3.2 supporting Wind River Linux 3.0.2 and VxWorks version 6.8, Wind River On-Chip Debugging 3.2 and Wind River Compiler 5.8, are immediately available to customers worldwide. More information about Wind River's development tools can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/development-tools/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif. with offices in more than 15 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or blogs.windriver.com.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications