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Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the controlling-your-supply-lines dept.

SlashDotDotDot writes "The New York Times reports that Intel will purchase Wind River, the embedded OS and software vendor, for $884 million. 'Wind River makes operating systems for platforms as diverse as autos and mobile phones, serving customers like Sony and Boeing. Intel, whose processors run about 80 percent of the world's personal computers, is expanding into new markets, including chips for televisions and mobile devices. Wind River's software and customer list will pave the way for Intel to win more chip contracts.'"

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  1. Re:How is this not "anti-competitive"? by macraig · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You must be newly hatched, huh? WE'RE not in court and I'm not on trial. This is Slashdot, where speculation is not only allowed, it's encouraged, nay mandatory! We all know what Intel plans to do with it, we just don't have a Minority Report with which to convict them... yet.

    Save the proof for court and mathematics class.

    BTW, I already said that the acquisition itself wasn't anti-competitive (even though I munged the sentence and cut out the middle):

    "...but the acquisition itself is irrelevant."

    (That sentence was supposed to have read: "In the instance of Microsoft there were no acquisitions involved AFAIK, but the acquisition itself is irrelevant.")