Intel Announces Acquisition of Virtutech
Wind River to Add Virtutech Simics Products to
Comprehensive Embedded Software Portfolio
ALAMEDA, California, February 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.
About Virtutech
Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in product development process
improvement through virtualized systems development (VSD). Virtutech
Simics® allows for a revolutionary change in the product development
process at a full system level rather than a component level and is
a commercial solution that uniquely delivers the four most important
criteria for successful deployment of hardware virtualization in the
electronics equipment development process: speed, scalability, model
availability, and control. Simics customers report reduced time to
market, better project risk management, lower capital expenditure,
product development cost and maintenance as well as increased
quality and individual productivity. Virtutech serves the needs of
the world's leading OEMs in the high-performance computing,
aerospace and defense, telecommunications, networking and
semiconductor industries. Customers include Cisco, Ericsson,
Freescale Semiconductor, GE Avionics, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed
Martin, Nortel and Northrop Grumman. Virtutech is an active
participant in organizations to drive adoption of VSD such as ARM
Connected Community, Eclipse.org, IBM PartnerWorld, Multicore
Association, Power.org, OSCI and Spirit Consortium. For more
information, visit
www.virtutech.com.
Contact Information
Bryan Thomas
Director, Global Communications
Bryan.Thomas@windriver.com
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