Wind River and Intel Collaborate to Advance Mobile Internet Device Market Segment

Introduction of Commercial Linux Platform to Accelerate Market Growth

TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Computex 2008, June 5, 2008 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that it is collaborating with Intel Corporation to accelerate the Mobile Internet Device (MID) market segment.

Wind River, with support from Intel, will develop an open, extensible Moblin-based Linux platform for the MID market. Furthermore, Wind River will introduce a commercial Moblin-based Linux platform specifically optimized for the Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology based MIDs. Wind River Linux Platform for Mobile Internet Devices will be a full-featured, commercial-grade Linux platform that will include a Linux distribution, middleware, and mobile applications targeted to deliver rich Internet and media experiences. As part of this effort, Wind River will participate in and contribute code to Moblin.org, an open source community project where Moblin-based technologies are developed. Both the open source and commercial Linux platforms are expected to be available in 2009.

Today's announcement represents a deepening collaboration between Wind River and Intel focused on enabling Linux solutions for key consumer market segments based on Intel Atom processors. In May, Wind River and Intel announced a similar collaboration targeting the automotive industry.

"Mobile Internet Devices have the potential to be the next high growth segment in the mobile space", said Ken Klein, CEO of Wind River. "Wind River is aiming to deliver on this potential by leveraging our leadership in driving open source standards and our expertise in developing commercial-grade platforms. Wind River's efforts, in combination with the open source Moblin software platform optimized for MIDs, will help accelerate the pervasiveness of the category."

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