EMBEDDED WORLD, NUREMBERG, Germany – Mar. 1, 2011 – Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the expansion of the Wind River On-Board Program, which will provide participating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processor board vendors with software tools, documentation and training to develop, test and validate their own unique Embedded Development Kits for the first time.

Embedded Development Kits provide customers with processor boards and optimized configurations of Wind River's market-leading operating systems, development tools, embedded hypervisor and graphics software. Wind River will enable board vendors to create their own Embedded Development Kits using Wind River's automated board support package (BSP) validation suite, technical support and training. This will benefit customers by providing access to a larger variety of Embedded Development Kits with assured tight integration with Wind River run-time and tools technologies. Leveraging pre-integrated off-the-shelf solutions helps reduce risk and support costs resulting in faster time-to-market.

The following are updated features of the Embedded Development Kits:

• Wind River will provide training and support to enable each board partner to create its own unique Embedded Development Kits, which offers each partner more control and greater flexibility at a faster production pace.


• During creation stages, board partners will utilize high-quality Wind River BSP test suites using Wind River Test Management to validate the quality of the partner's BSP.


• All test suites are fully automated and include comprehensive BSP testing, running code through quality assurance scripts, confirming accuracy and uncovering potential bugs.


• When testing is complete, a report is generated providing a detailed description of each passed and failed component of the BSP.


• Once the Embedded Development Kit passes all testing, Wind River will review the test results and approve the software, and the Embedded Development Kit then is ready for inclusion with the partner's development board.

"Software quality assurance has never been more important, or more difficult, and embedded developers are being pressed to deliver products faster than ever," said Barry Mainz, chief operating officer at Wind River. "With this next phase of the Wind River On-Board Program, our ecosystem of board partners can now leverage our software, automated testing, tools and BSP validation methods to create exponentially more Embedded Development Kits, in turn controlling their costs and diminishing their customers' development risks while still maintaining supreme reliability and high quality."

"Using the Embedded Development Kits have proved instrumental in securing a number of important design wins in the past six months," said Arlen Nipper, chief technology officer of Eurotech in North America. "Customers have reacted positively to the outstanding out-of-the-box experience, and have increased confidence that they can achieve their technical and time-to-market requirements with reduced risk as a result. Additionally, by expanding the Wind River On-Board Program we can now utilize Wind River's automated BSP validation suite, which will allow us to quickly create our own unique Embedded Development Kits and respond more rapidly to customers' ambitious schedules and requirements."

Availability
Embedded Development Kits from ADLINK, Advantech, Emerson, Eurotech, Intel and Kontron are available today. Additional Embedded Development Kits from Curtiss-Wright, GE, RadiSys and other vendors are expected to be available later in 2011.

Embedded Development Kits from ADLINK, Emerson, Eurotech and Kontron will be demonstrated at Embedded World 2011 at the Wind River booth located in Hall 11, booth #11-118.

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 1 billion 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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EMBEDDED WORLD, NUREMBERG, Germany — Feb. 28, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced updated certification evidence for industrial safety standard IEC 61508 for its VxWorks Cert platform. This certification evidence, along with updated certification evidence for avionics safety standards RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B, is now available for the first time on Intel® Architecture and for PowerPC e300 and e600 architectures. Additionally, VxWorks Cert now provides a board support package (BSP) for the Kontron 6U CompactPCI processor board CP6016, an Intel® CoreTM 2 platform. This pre-integrated commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software combination can accelerate customer certification processes, decrease development costs and speed time-to-market.

Wind River’s IEC 61508 SIL3 (safety integrity level) certificate is provided by TÜV SÜD, an internationally recognized safety certification authority. The IEC 61508 industrial safety standard forms a basis for many derived standards, including the IEC 61513 nuclear standard and the CENELEC EN50128 railway standard. Proof of certification for the real-time operating system (RTOS) helps to accelerate the required certification work for the creation of a certified, safe system in markets where safety and reliability are imperative. VxWorks was first certified for IEC 61508 SIL3 in April 2004. Moreover, Wind River’s partnership with Kontron to create a COTS BSP directly addresses increased demand for a pre-integrated package that will help accomplish final system certification faster in multiple market segments, including avionics, industrial automation and transportation systems.

"The level of certification evidence required by government and regulatory bodies is becoming more stringent, creating the potential for product delays," said Warren Kurisu vice president of product management for VxWorks at Wind River. "Maintaining and updating our VxWorks Cert product is imperative to supporting our key COTS hardware partners. These latest advancements of achieving both the IEC 61508 certificate and developing a COTS BSP with Kontron demonstrates our commitment to our customers and to our partner ecosystem to provide proven COTS platforms that can reduce project delays associated with complying with system certification standards."

"Wind River has the product maturity and track record in safety critical systems and can provide assurance that the software meets multiple strict safety certification requirements," said Norbert Hauser, vice president of marketing for Kontron. "Kontron's 6U CompactPCI processor board CP6016 in combination with Wind River's VxWorks Cert Platform helps customers accelerate certification requirements for their safe system, and ultimately, get to market faster in a highly competitive market."

Availability
Updated full certification material for VxWorks Cert is available now to customers worldwide on Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo, PowerPC e300 and PowerPC e600. This certification material is complemented with Wind River’s proven consulting services team for certification projects. This team helps customers fully leverage the Wind River certification COTS package on various customer-specific configurations, derived standards and additional architectures.

To view Wind River's IEC 61508 certificate from TÜV SÜD, visit http://www.windriver.com/themes/Windriver/pdf/VxWorks_Cert_IEC_61508_SIL3_Certificate.pdf and for more information about VxWorks Cert, visit www.windriver.com/products/platforms/vxworks_cert/.

Additionally, Wind River will be at Embedded World 2011 showcasing its latest demonstrations in Hall 11, booth #11-118.

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 1 billion 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

EMBEDDED WORLD, NUREMBERG, Germany — Feb. 28, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced an updated version of VxWorks, the embedded industry’s leading real-time operating system (RTOS). The latest VxWorks is one of the first commercial RTOSes delivering 64-bit computing support and includes improved multi-core processing support.

"The embedded market is facing skyrocketing demands for processing performance as systems become ever more complex and increasingly connected. The sheer amount of compute power, memory and data required for embedded applications continues to climb exponentially," said Warren Kurisu, vice president of VxWorks product management at Wind River. "By providing 64-bit computing capability, Wind River addresses the high-performance needs of our embedded market. VxWorks continues to be an innovation leader that delivers vital solutions to our customers."

VxWorks now delivers 64-bit support both in data and code execution that was once the sole domain of supercomputer and server markets. For telecommunications network infrastructure equipment manufacturers, 64-bit computing is critical in keeping up with the stresses of increasingly exploding data. Other vertical industries are also demanding 64-bit support, for example, for industrial and medical applications such as high-definition imagery, and aerospace and defense applications such as highly complex radar, sonar and sensors. Companies already running VxWorks can rapidly transition to 64-bit computing with ease.

The latest VxWorks delivers greater multi-core processing performance in both symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetrical multiprocessing (AMP) configurations. VxWorks platforms now bundle the Intel® C++ Compiler for VxWorks and the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives for VxWorks (Intel® IPP) for Intel® architectures only. This version of VxWorks now includes support for the ARM Cortex A9 processor, with a multi-core SMP and ARM Thumb-2 instruction set. This VxWorks release also provides enhanced networking capabilities, including new security features and increased Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments (IETF RFC) support. Additionally, software development on VxWorks continues to be enabled by the Wind River Workbench development tools suite.

Availability
The latest version of VxWorks will be available in March. Additional details can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/vxworks6.9/.

Additionally, Wind River will be at Embedded World 2011 showcasing its latest demonstrations in Hall 11, booth #11-118.

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 1 billion 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

RSA CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 16, 2011 — McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) and Wind River today announced a strategic agreement to develop, market and support security solutions for non-PC devices, specifically embedded and mobile devices. Together McAfee and Wind River will create comprehensive, purpose-built security solutions specifically designed for these increasingly connected devices or networks of devices.
The number of connected devices is increasing exponentially and is expected to grow to 50 billion by 2020, according to internal McAfee estimates. The lion's share of this growth is expected to come from traditional embedded and mobile device market segments such as industrial control, energy management, automotive, national infrastructure, defense, networking and smartphones as well as emerging segments including smart grid, connected home health care, home gateways and tablets. Historically, devices in the embedded market segment were discrete or had limited connectivity. However, today there is a big push to connect these devices to the enterprise and public networks.

This tsunami of connectivity is creating a huge increase in security vulnerabilities. A security breach of an embedded device (e.g., nuclear reactor controls, utility grid, defense communication system) could have serious implications. In addition, embedded devices are now targets of organized crime and nation states as evidenced by the recent Stuxnet attack.

Since embedded devices have technology requirements that differ from traditional IT equipment, namely limited power, memory and performance constraints, traditional security solutions are insufficient. Together McAfee and Wind River will offer purpose-built security and management solutions for this unique and explosive growing market segment.

"Embedded devices are everywhere, allowing us to communicate and improve aspects of our daily lives," said Dave DeWalt, president and CEO, McAfee. "These instrumental pieces of our lives also pose a great risk and securing them is imperative. The teaming of McAfee and Wind River will allow us to implement security measures to protect these critical devices and keep people more safe and secure."

"Our customers across nearly all market segments have elevated embedded security to a top priority," said Ken Klein, president, Wind River. "Together with McAfee, we will deliver the most comprehensive security solutions in the embedded industry, with security solutions designed to protect all layers of the software stack. This will address our customers’ concerns and protect their embedded devices as they are increasingly used on public and private networks."

McAfee and Wind River will offer protection and management capabilities to this exploding market of connected devices everywhere, with initial integrations between Wind River Linux and McAfee security solutions, followed by additional integrations with other Wind River operating systems and embedded virtualization technologies. A phased rollout of security solutions will be delivered in 2011. Additionally, Wind River will include McAfee security offerings in its future products to make it even easier for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to build secure devices.

About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by unrivaled McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee secures your digital world. http://www.mcafee.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 1 billion 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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BARCELONA, Spain – Feb. 14, 2010 – Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced updated versions of its Wind River Platform for Android and Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) for Android to help developers deliver feature-rich Android devices to market quickly and reliably. Additionally, Wind River Platform for Android, a commercial software platform based on the Android software development kit, includes upgrade paths to future Android releases, including Gingerbread and Honeycomb to support a wider range of devices such as tablets.

"In the rush to develop Android devices, device manufacturers must still contend with product development issues such as software quality and Android compliance while also building distinctive and innovative products," said Michael Krutz, vice president of worldwide solutions and services at Wind River. "Wind River provides commercial-quality software solutions to rapidly develop high-quality Android devices so device manufacturers can focus the majority of their efforts on the differentiating features that set their products apart from the competition."

Wind River Platform for Android now includes DLNA Digital Media Server (DMS) functionality, which allows an Android device to act as a DMS and share its media files such as movies, music or photos with other networked DLNA Certified devices across a digital home. A key differentiator for larger screen Android devices, Wind River Platform for Android offers a multi-windowing experience such as concurrent active application windows, windows movement, resizing and theme support. Wind River Platform for Android also supports USB On-the-Go, a USB specification for mobile applications that adds host functionality for connection to USB peripherals. This allows a mobile Android device to connect to other USB devices such as a keyboard, mouse or, for example, USB disks to access media files and enjoy them on the Android device. Wind River Platform for Android now includes Ethernet support. Also, Wind River Platform for Android adds silicon support for NVIDIA Tegra 250, in addition to existing support for Intel®, Qualcomm QSD/MSM and TI OMAP architectures.

Wind River FAST for Android, an automated software testing solution for Android-based devices, helps device manufacturers and operators rapidly test and validate software and prove compliance with the Android Compatibility Test Suite. The latest Wind River FAST for Android supports 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 and includes enhancements to the testing framework and expanded test coverage areas.

The following are new key features and benefits of Wind River FAST for Android:

• Improved error reporting mechanisms, including console logging and crash detection for the monitoring of errors or crashes, log filtering for easier searches and detailed test script reports


• Predefined tagging schema for easier test filtering


• Increased test assets including new GPS and location manager tests, localization tests and additional stress tests


• Support for testing multiple devices over USB and also TCP/IP

Additionally, at Mobile World Congress 2011, Wind River is previewing Wind River FAST technology for MeeGo, which demonstrates automated software testing for MeeGo software stacks for the rapid development of MeeGo devices. The demonstration showcases a variety of capabilities including tests to prove MeeGo compliance, user experience tests and a MeeGo core test suite covering vital elements such as connection, telephony, location, graphics and audio. Also at Mobile World Congress, Wind River will demonstrate a new MeeGo tablet user experience that has been specifically developed for these devices. For this tablet demonstration, Wind River provided user interface implementation, system integration and optimization services.

Wind River is showcasing its latest mobile demonstrations at the Wind River booth in Hall 2, booth 2C04 at Mobile World Congress. To learn more about Wind River at Mobile World Congress, visit www.windriver.com/announces/mobile-world-congress/.

Updated versions of Wind River Platform for Android and Wind River FAST for Android are immediately available. Additional information about Wind River Platform for Android is available at www.windriver.com/solutions/mobile-devices/android.html. To learn more about Wind River FAST for Android, visit www.windriver.com/products/mobile-linux/fast.html.
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. — Feb. 7, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, announced the US Navy / Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base in California on February 4, 2011 at 2:09 p.m. PST for 29 minutes. Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) is a key technology for the X-47B in the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program. VxWorks was chosen by Northrop Grumman as the software platform for the UCAS-D program, and by GE Aviation as the foundation for the Common Core System, the backbone of UCAS-D computers, networks and interfacing electronics and provides the primary computing environment.

The X-47B is an unmanned aircraft Northrop Grumman developed for the Navy to demonstrate that an unmanned, tailless aircraft can operate safely and autonomously from aircraft carriers and refuel in-flight. Northrop Grumman developers leveraged VxWorks to rapidly create, deploy and maintain critical applications for this unmanned aircraft. The VxWorks platform provides developers with a proven, reliable, high-performance solution necessary for building safety-critical control systems.

"The UCAS-D program is an essential step toward the future of carrier-based unmanned systems technology, and Wind River is honored to have been selected for such an ambitious military program," said Chip Downing, director of aerospace and defense at Wind River. "As evidenced by our work with Northrop Grumman, Wind River continues to be a core innovation enabler for unmanned systems with proven COTS certification products that help companies quickly bring to market highly complex systems that must undergo rigorous military and commercial safety testing and verification."

"Launching the X-47B is a major milestone for the Navy, Northrop Grumman, and Wind River, whose technology was important to its success," said Janis Pamiljans, vice president and UCAS-D program manager for Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector.

To learn more about Wind River’s aerospace and defense solutions, visit www.windriver.com/solutions/industries/aerospace-defense.

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