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Bombardier Transportation Selects Wind River Platforms for Safety Critical Certified Display on London Underground

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 20, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that leading train manufacturer Bombardier Transportation has selected Wind River VxWorks 61508 Platform and Wind River Linux for its latest standards-based HMI410 Train Information System.

Bombardier selected VxWorks 61508 Platform because of its high reliability and safety critical certification evidence while taking advantage of Linux's graphics and connectivity functionality. The VxWorks 61508 Platform is now bundled in the newly released VxWorks Cert Platform. The HMI410 will be used on the new Bombardier-built S-Stock trains that will run on London Underground’s subsurface lines including District, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City.

The HMI410 design consists of a carrier board with a Freescale MPC870 processor running VxWorks 61508 Platform. In addition, a Kontron Atom mezzanine module is connected to the carrier board to accommodate an Intel® Atom™ processor running Wind River Linux. The software running on the Freescale controller must meet Safety Integrity Level 2, or SIL 2, according to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization EN 50128 (CENELEC EN 50128) safety standard. Wind River VxWorks 61508 Platform, with its commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, IEC 61508 certification evidence, provides the run-time platform for the safety critical portion of the application. Coupled with Intel Atom processor—supported Wind River Linux for the non-safety-critical applications, it enables Bombardier to utilize cost-effective COTS hardware while meeting the stringent software development targets set by customers and railway certification agencies.

Wind River also provided certified board support packages and support for the certification process to accelerate development and significantly reduce certification costs for Bombardier. This approach enables predictability in future projects through reuse of the same certification processes and artifacts. Wind River supports both CENELEC EN 50128 and IEC 61508 safety standards for applications and devices in the industrial markets including safety controllers for oil refineries, nuclear power plants and railway signaling systems.

"The rail industry is seeking innovative new solutions to improve services for their customers while driving down cost and reducing time-to-market," said Erik Gyllenswärd, project manager at Bombardier. "Wind River's VxWorks platform along with their validated, traceable, commercial-grade Linux distribution allowed us to speed up the development of our standards-based solution and meet our market delivery window."

VxWorks 61508 Platform allows customers to reduce development risk for safety certified systems by leveraging the portability of existing VxWorks components, development tools and partner ecosystem while maintaining confidence in meeting the requirements for lower cost, faster time-to-market, higher quality and increased performance. The platform is based on commercial-grade VxWorks and is specialized for stringent IEC 61508 certification requirements for energy, industrial control, medical, process automation and transportation market segments.

"Industry-leading device manufacturers within the rail industry require a predictable, simplified path to certification," said Jens Wiegand, vice president of industry solutions at Wind River. "Emerging safety critical requirements and increased system complexity mean innovators such as Bombardier must rely on a market-leading solution to minimize the risk of delays and budget overruns due to certification issues. The combination of VxWorks and our commercial-grade Wind River Linux enables manufacturers to achieve these increasingly stringent objectives and benefit from the advantages of both VxWorks and Linux in one solution while meeting all certification requirements."

More information about Wind River’s solutions for safety and security can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/safe-and-secure/.

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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Eurotech and Wind River Announce Collaboration to Speed Embedded Application Development

COLUMBIA, Md. and ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 8, 2010 — Eurotech and Wind River today announced a strategic collaboration to support joint sales, marketing and distribution of Embedded Development Kits, which enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally takes more than days or weeks. As part of the Wind River On-Board Program, Eurotech will offer Embedded Development Kits with validated board support packages of Wind River's embedded Linux operating system with Eurotech’s Intel® Atom™ processor-based hardware to help equipment manufacturers save time and money on application integration for faster, more efficient time-to-market.

Each Embedded Development Kit includes a bootable USB flash drive that immediately turns any host computer into a fully integrated development environment with no installation required. The 30-day trial software from Wind River is optimized for developing, running, debugging and prototyping embedded software directly onto a Eurotech processor board using Wind River Workbench. Each Eurotech board comes preconfigured to boot Wind River Linux out of the box and the option of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite. Each Embedded Development Kit is customized with a startup guide and a set of comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials that walk developers through applicable use cases and workflows intended to make them more productive in a matter of hours using the included self-directed documentation and play-by-play videos. Since each Embedded Development Kit processor board is optimized for Wind River's embedded software and development tools, customers obtain a more tightly integrated hardware and software solution with easier access to board-specific components.

Eurotech is one of the inaugural ecosystem members of the Wind River On-Board Program, validating multiple embedded computing boards and platforms from Eurotech's product line, including the Catalyst LP computer-on-module and Helios edge controller platform, for a total of 6 Eurotech products available to order now. The first Embedded Development Kits run Intel processors, including Series Z5xx and higher-speed N450 single-core and D510 dual-core processors.

"We have been working closely with Wind River, and today's announcement formalizes our tight collaboration. We’ve recently completed development efforts to ensure our Intel Atom processor—based product line can not only run a standard Wind River Linux BSP but that each OS available on our products has been optimized to our individual platforms," said Arlen Nipper, chief technology officer of Eurotech in North America. "Now we can offer Wind River Linux 3.0x kernels on many of our Intel Atom—based platforms as fully validated implementations of Wind River Linux with a prelicensed kernel run-time, which will mitigate risks associated with software integration and rapidly increase time-to-market."

"Wind River and Eurotech have worked diligently to formalize an out-of-the-box hardware and software solution that provides the foundation for rapid innovation," said Jens Wiegand, vice president of industry solutions at Wind River. "By using preintegrated hardware components, OEMs can spend more time developing differentiated products than integrating third-party technologies and reduce overall project risk to ultimately get their products to market faster."

See Wind River and Eurotech products on display in booth 101 at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco's Moscone Center West, Sept. 13—15, 2010. More information about the Wind River On-Board Program is available at www.windriver.com/announces/embedded-development-kits/.

ABOUT EUROTECH
Eurotech is a listed global company (ETH.MI) that integrates hardware, software, services and expertise to deliver embedded computing platforms and subsystems to leading OEMs, system integrators and enterprise customers for successful and efficient deployment of their products and services. Drawing on concepts of minimalist computing, Eurotech lowers power draw, minimizes physical size and reduces coding complexity to bring sensors, embedded platforms, subsystems, ready-to-use devices and high-performance computers to market, specializing in health care, security, defense, transportation, industrial and energy segments. By combining domain expertise in wireless connectivity as well as communications protocols, Eurotech architects integrated solutions that simplify data capture, processing and transfer over unified communications networks. Our customers rely on us to simplify their access to state-of-the-art embedded technologies so they can focus on their core competencies. Learn more about Eurotech at www.eurotech.com.

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.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Allison Yrungaray, +1.626.841.1640, allison.yrungaray@eurotech.com
Giuliana Vidoni, +39.0433.485462, giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com
Alison Allrich, +1 1.510.749.2727, alison.allrich@windriver.com

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Wind River and Its Partners Bring Out-of-the-Box PC Experience to Embedded Market

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 8, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has partnered with an ecosystem of processor board vendors to provide Embedded Development Kits that enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally can take days or weeks. As part of the new program, called the Wind River On-Board Program, the Embedded Development Kits comprise processor boards with optimized trial versions of Wind River’s market-leading operating systems, development tools, and embedded hypervisor and graphics software. Embedded Development Kits from Emerson Network Power, Eurotech and Kontron are available today, and additional Embedded Development Kits from Advantech, ADLINK, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, GE Intelligent Platforms and RadiSys will be available in Q4 of 2010.

Each Embedded Development Kit includes a bootable USB flash drive that immediately turns any host computer into a fully integrated development environment, or IDE, with absolutely no installation required. Each commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, processor board comes with a pre-flashed 30-day run-time trial version of Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system and/or Wind River Linux. The software from Wind River is optimized for developing, running, debugging and prototyping embedded software directly onto the chosen COTS processor board using Wind River Workbench. Options including trial versions of Wind River Hypervisor and Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite are also available depending on the specific Embedded Development Kit configuration.

"Wind River and its board vendor partners have worked diligently for the past year to formalize an out-of-the-box hardware and software solution that provides our joint customers with a foundation to begin innovating in minutes rather than weeks," said Barry Mainz, chief operating officer at Wind River. "To achieve the desired results required new thinking and some innovative technology. We are extremely pleased with the outcome, and the reaction from initial partners and customers has been overwhelmingly positive. We are confident our joint customers will greatly benefit by not only mitigating risks associated with software integration but by accelerating time to productivity."

Each Embedded Development Kit is customized with a startup guide and a set of comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials that walk the developer through applicable use cases and workflows intended to make the developer productive in a matter of hours, using the included self-directed documentation, play-by-play videos or both. Since each Embedded Development Kit processor board is optimized for Wind River’s embedded software and development tools, customers obtain a more tightly integrated hardware and software solution with easier access to board-specific components.

According to Chris Rommel, senior analyst at VDC Research Group, "We are beginning to see a shift in the embedded market where engineering organizations are considering a more integrated hardware and software approach in an effort to extract efficiencies and improve time to market. What Wind River and its board partners have delivered caters to this demand and can help companies consolidate their ecosystems and provide the embedded market with something closer to the out-of-the-box PC development experience."

Availability
The following Embedded Development Kits are immediately available from Wind River’s board vendor partners: Emerson MATXM-CORE-411-WR for VxWorks, Wind River Linux, and Wind River Hypervisor; Eurotech boards Catalyst FX, Catalyst LP, Catalyst Module XL and ISIS and platforms Helios and ISIS ICE for Wind River Linux and Tilcon Graphics Suite; and Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP, uETXexpress-DC, uETXexpress-SP, VX3020 and VX3230 for VxWorks, Wind River Linux and Tilcon Graphics Suite. To upgrade from the 30-day trial versions to licensed versions of Wind River’s embedded software, customers simply follow instructions provided to them in the Embedded Development Kits.

Emerson Network Power, Eurotech and Kontron will demonstrate the Embedded Development Kits at the Intel Developer Forum, Sept. 13-15, 2010, in San Francisco at Wind River's booth #101.

More information about these Embedded Development Kits is available at www.windriver.com/announces/embedded-development-kits/.

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.

SUPPORTING PARTNER QUOTES

Emerson Network Power
"The MATXM-CORE-411-WR from Emerson Network Power combines Emerson's first-to-market hardware based on the Intel® Core™ i7 processor with Wind River's world-renowned real-time operating system to enable customers to quickly boot and evaluate a fully working development suite," said Paul Virgo, director of marketing for Embedded Computing at Emerson Network Power. "By working closely together, Emerson Network Power and Wind River are simplifying the start-up process by putting all the tools in one box for customer evaluation."

Eurotech
"We have been working closely with Wind River for the past year to ensure our Intel® Atom™ processor based product line can not only run a standard Wind River Linux BSP but that each OS available on our products has been optimized to our individual platforms," said Arlen Nipper, president and chief technology officer of Eurotech in North America. "Now we can offer Wind River Linux and Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite on Eurotech Catalyst, ISIS and Helios boards and platforms as a fully validated implementation for extremely rapid time-to-market systems."

Kontron
"As Wind River’s lead partner in the Wind River On-Board Program, we have had our nanoETXexpress-SP Embedded Development Kit for the latest VxWorks platform available since April of this year and customer feedback has been very favorable," said Dirk Finstel, chief technology officer at Kontron AG. "These tightly integrated Embedded Development Kits enable us to further reduce time-to-market requirements and increase our value-added services by providing our customers a richer out-of-the-box experience with a compelling set of tools and operating system options."

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications