Intel宣布以8.8亿美元收购Wind River

Prescott

Wind River？没听过吧。。。。。。
那听过VxWorks没有？
看样子，Intel对于嵌入式领域志在必得阿。

Intel Agrees to Acquire Wind River for $884 Million (Update2)

By Ian King

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, agreed to purchase software company Wind RiverSystems Inc. for about $884 million, part of an effort to move beyond personal computers.     
       The price is $11.50 a share in cash, Santa Clara,California-based Intel said today in a statement. Wind River makes software that’s embedded into mobile devices and electronics for customers such as Sony Corp. and Boeing Co. The companies expect the deal to close in the next few months.     
       Intel, whose processors run about 80 percent of the world’sPCs, has sought to revive slumping sales by expanding into new markets, including chips for televisions and mobile devices.Wind River’s software will help pave the way for Intel to sell chips in more devices, said Cody Acree, an analyst at StifelNicolaus & Co. in Dallas, Texas.     
       “If you have a chip you want to put in a lot of things other than a PC, you need code,” said Acree, who recommends Intel stock and doesn’t own it. “Wind River brings that, and it brings customers.”     
       This is the second large technology acquisition announcement this week. Data Domain Inc., which makes a product that reduces the amount of disk space needed to store data,accepted a $1.9 billion offer from NetApp Inc. yesterday. NetApp fended off a hostile bid for Data Domain from EMC Corp. earlier this week.     
       Intel fell 25 cents to $15.94 yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Wind River, based in Alameda, California, fell 1cent to $8.     
       Hunt for Acquisitions     
       Intel, whose revenue fell 26 percent last quarter amid a global slump in chip sales, has been looking for acquisitions to boost growth and fill in gaps in intellectual property, Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith said last week.     
       Wind River distributes versions of the Linux operating system, competing with products from Microsoft Corp. The company also is adapting that software for mobile Internet devices --the successors to today’s smart phones -- a market that Intel istrying to crack with its Atom chip.     
       Otellini also pumped $1 billion into Clearwire Corp. lastyear. That company is building a high-speed wireless network, a project that could help fuel demand for Intel chips.     
       Otellini has said he expects the second half of the year tobe stronger than the first after seeing signs that the computer industry bottomed out in the first quarter.     
       To contact the reporter on this story:Ian King in San Francisco at ianking@bloomberg.net

boris_lee

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pjtomtai

好贵啊,这么个公司就要9个亿.

roger243

I全方位出击了，很多人的日子不好过了～

shuhua_114

z这个世界太疯狂！！

AMD11

Wind River？没听过吧。。。。。。
那听过VxWorks没有？
看样子，Intel对于嵌入式领域志在必得阿。

Intel Agrees to Acquire Wind River for $884 Million (Update2)

By Ian King

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- ...
Prescott 发表于 2009-6-4 22:27

我倒觉得是必然的，嵌入领域上利润并不低，加上Intel的生产优势和技术优势，这个领域技术发展有加速的优势。
我正等着Intel的SOC系统，E3100性能还是低点。

kisazhu

有米就是好。。。

gxiaok

确实没听过.

xreal

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popboy139

中国出口到巴基斯坦的枭龙战机也用VxWorks 机遇号 勇气号也是用VxWorks

Mageblade

VxWorks可是航天飞机里都在用的嵌入式系统，这回Intel更NB了！

logMsg

玩过VxWorks，通讯设备的。。。。

Intel收购Wind River，野心昭然若揭。

logMsg

本人ID就是取自xWorks系统下神奇的logMsg函数

tenzerotwo

VxWorks 嵌入式操作系统入门必学

oe39

ri 他个娘 罗菜鸟 邵皮 邵到GZ上来了

雁塔路

悍马才500000000

Ricepig

估计arm惨咯