ALAMEDA, Calif. — Oct. 25, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, introduced a new version of Wind River Hypervisor, a real-time, embedded hypervisor for virtualization, which adds support for Freescale QorIQ P2 and P4 platform series and Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series. Wind River plans to further broaden its hardware support for Wind River Hypervisor with multi-core ARM in 2011.

Wind River Hypervisor, together with the latest versions of Wind River's operating systems and development tools, represents the breadth and depth of the company's multi-core software portfolio that combines multi-core-aware operating systems, tools, and embedded virtualization that scales from unicore to high-core count multi-core processors. Wind River Hypervisor is highly optimized for and integrated with the latest versions of VxWorks, Wind River Linux, Wind River Workbench and Wind River Test Management.

"Adoption of multi-core and embedded virtualization offers opportunities to leverage existing software in the form of legacy, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and open source as well as improve the reliability of systems," said Mark Hermeling, product line manager for embedded virtualization at Wind River. "We're seeing a notable increase in virtualization demand across many of our key embedded market segments. To address this demand, we're advancing the technology and growing industry support of Wind River Hypervisor through our strong ties within the embedded ecosystem and plan to accelerate our pace of innovation even further."

New features and benefits of the latest Wind River Hypervisor include the following:

• Support for Freescale's e500mc core and the QorIQ P4080 processor; virtualization hardware assist offered by the processor core, the multiple memory busses as well as the Data Path Acceleration Architecture


• The ability to run unmodified guest operating systems on e500mc and Intel processors, which reduces the cost for consolidation of existing systems


• A flexible device management layer, which offers fine-grained tuning of device access and sharing, thereby delivering flexibility with maximum performance


• Built-in capabilities for software upgrades, allowing customers to easily update the operating systems running inside virtual machines


 

Wind River Hypervisor focuses on core real-time and embedded values such as high performance, small footprint, determinism, low latency and high reliability and can deliver these values on a wide variety of popular embedded hardware architectures, thereby offering scalability from very small and power-efficient processors used in industrial and consumer electronics devices to the high core-count processors used in the large switches powering today's telecom networks.

Companies are increasingly looking to leverage the power of multi-core processors and embedded virtualization, yet they often struggle with the first step in implementing multi-core into their product lines. Wind River Professional Services has consolidated years of knowledge and experience assisting customers with multi-core architecture decisions and implementation and created the Wind River Multi-Core Adoption Package. This services offering provides customers with a reliable path to multi-core and includes two consultative elements, the Multi-core Platform Architecture Study and Multi-core Platform Implementation Services.

Both Wind River Hypervisor 1.2 and the Wind River Multi-core Adoption Package are available now. More information about Wind River Hypervisor can be found at www.windriver.com/products/hypervisor. To learn more about Wind River Professional Services and the Wind River Multi-core Adoption Package, visit www.windriver.com/ip-services.

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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ALAMEDA, Calif. — Oct. 18, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, introduces its fourth-generation commercial embedded Linux platform based on the recently released Linux 2.6.34+ kernel, cross-compiling toolchains GCC 4.4, EGLIBC 2.11 and GDB 7, and support for leading ARM, Intel, MIPS and Power architectures. Wind River Linux 4 is also on track for compliancy with forthcoming Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 standards for high availability and serviceability and Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 certification requirements for application portability.

“With the introduction of Wind River Linux 4, we’re providing customers with the latest Linux technology in a stable, tested and integrated development environment,” said Paul Anderson, vice president of marketing and strategy for Linux products at Wind River. “Having a fully supported, development-ready Linux platform enables customers to reduce cost and time-to-market by focusing resources on product differentiation and revenue-impacting activities, rather than spending time reinventing base technologies or dealing with potential open source license issues.”

Additional key features and benefits of Wind River Linux 4 include the following:

• Multiple options for virtualization strategies to leverage the power of multi-core hardware, from KVM paravirtualized device drivers in the kernel to Wind River Hypervisor


• Support for a fully pre-emptible kernel (PREEMPT RT) and a seamless migration path for teams currently developing products on Wind River Linux 3.x


• User space, workflow and tool enhancements to increase productivity and facilitate resource sharing across multiple teams, including a new source management control solution, an improved mechanism for capturing, archiving and sharing patches, analysis tools for memory, footprint and power usage, and new tools to speed cross-compiling and debugging


• Board support packages for next generation multiprocessors from Cavium Networks, Freescale, Intel, NetLogic Microsystems and Texas Instruments, enabling customers to develop future platform deployments in networking, industrial and medical, aerospace and defense, and consumer device markets


• Capability for customers to build applications in a native build environment on x86-based machines and reduce customer development and diagnosis time on x86-based platforms

“In the VDC 2010 Embedded Software Engineering Market Technologies report¹, we estimated that Wind River achieved market share lead in 2009 for the Commercial Embedded Linux Distributions segment with greater than 49 percent of total market revenue, more than twenty one percentage points over the next closest competitor,” said Steve Balacco, practice director of the embedded software team at VDC. “The release of Wind River’s latest Linux platform, Wind River Linux 4, leverages the innovation of the open source community in a commercially available and supportable product offering.”

Also, based on customer requests to create a resource of active and accessible experts, Wind River introduced the Wind River Developer Community for Linux in August. This community encourages interactions between Wind River users, Wind River engineers and embedded Linux community experts and provides a platform for exchanging ideas, news, technical knowledge, best practices and tips to help customers maximize their use of Wind River Linux and embedded Linux.

Availability
Wind River Linux 4 will be available worldwide later in October. More information about Wind River Linux is available at www.windriver.com/announces/linux4.

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.

1. VDC Research Group, 2010 Service Year Track 1: Embedded Software Engineering Market Technologies Volume 1: Embedded Real-time Operating Systems

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ALAMEDA, Calif. — October 5, 2010 — Wind River today announced its collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent to develop common platform assets for Alcatel-Lucent's wireless network base station portfolio. Alcatel-Lucent's common platform provides the hardware and software foundation for present and future generations of its wireless network products, including both time division duplex and frequency division duplex variants of 4G or LTE base stations. Alcatel-Lucent will use Wind River Linux, optimized for the Freescale QorIQ P4080 multi-core processor, to develop and support the common platform.

Given the growing demands from ever increasing wireless data traffic, Alcatel-Lucent evaluated a number of solutions to ensure it would be able to create a common foundation with high performance and reliability for its wireless network infrastructure. Wind River Linux delivered on Alcatel-Lucent's needs for open source innovation and customization available from Linux, coupled with the benefits of a stable, carrier grade commercial product as well as the latest in multi-core software technologies.

"Together with Alcatel-Lucent, we are working to attain higher levels of performance to address the need for faster, more efficient and intelligent networks," said Mike Langlois, general manager for networking and telecommunications at Wind River. "Wind River is able to provide customized, accelerated access to optimized multi-core hardware and software solutions to help Alcatel-Lucent achieve faster time-to-market for its 4G solutions. Our strategic collaboration will ultimately help to deliver on greater quality of service expectations and performance demands."

"The need for higher speeds from wireless networks requires top performance, and to achieve this we needed to look to the latest multi-core technologies integrated with a world-class Linux distribution," said Bill Zucker, vice president of wireless common assets and platforms at Alcatel-Lucent. "It was critical to find a partner with the multi-core expertise that could help us extract the best performance from cutting-edge hardware. Thanks to Wind River's deep relationships across the embedded ecosystem and ability to tightly integrate and optimize multi-core hardware and software solutions, we can create highly scalable products that meet the market's increasing demand for greater performance."

The Alcatel-Lucent common platform is based on Wind River Linux and includes the recently released Linux kernel version 2.6.34. The latest revision of PREEMPT RT was used to advance pre-emption capabilities and create a Linux kernel that is more deterministic, with reduced latency for a real-time response. To ensure its readiness for the latest multi-core architectures, Wind River Linux was optimized to fully support the QorIQ P4080 processor.

Wind River also provides testing, integration and long-term local support and services appropriate for the long life cycle of network infrastructure products. Wind River's customized support for Alcatel-Lucent included early access to new features, all of which were optimized to Alcatel-Lucent's multi-core architecture of choice. Wind River is able to provide local support near the sites of the Alcatel-Lucent design teams developing the common platform.

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