Wind River Announces Disruptive Infotainment Platform for Automotive Industry

Pre-Integrated Solution Supported by Comprehensive Ecosystem of
Partners
DETROIT--(Business Wire)--
Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in
Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced an infotainment
platform based on an automotive-optimized commercial Linux that will
significantly accelerate time-to-market of innovative applications for
the in-vehicle infotainment segment of the automotive industry. Wind
River's commercial Linux platform, Wind River Linux Platform for
Infotainment, is expected to be available in the third quarter of
Fiscal 2009.

In recent years, the automotive industry has faced integration and
interoperability challenges with consumer electronics technologies.
The challenges are largely due to mismatched development cycles,
dramatic increases in platform development costs, and a pressing need
to speed platform innovation to help differentiate the entire vehicle.
Manufacturers and suppliers have found that traditional proprietary
approaches to these challenges lack the flexibility to help create
true differentiation. In addition, these approaches constrict business
models, while Linux kernel-centric approaches don't address
time-to-market issues or development costs. Through Wind River Linux
Platform for Infotainment, developers, suppliers and manufacturers
will be better positioned to bring to market new, compelling products
faster and at a much lower cost.

Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment will be optimized for
the Intel(R) Atom(TM) processor, and will offer pre-integration with
many leading third-party networking and multimedia applications. These
leading applications include speech-recognition and speech-to-text
technologies by Nuance Communications, Inc.; Bluetooth and advanced
echo-cancellation and noise reduction solutions by Parrot; music
management and automatic playlisting technologies by Gracenote, Inc.;
multimedia networking solutions by SMSC; and DVD playback by Corel's
LinDVD.

"Wind River is taking the daunting complexity out of the
in-vehicle device market by providing a single, integrated development
environment that leverages contributions from adjacent industries and
will be pre-integrated with a comprehensive ecosystem of partner
technologies," said Vincent Rerolle, senior vice president and general
manager of the Linux product division at Wind River. "We expect this
platform to be a disruptive innovation since it is expected to
challenge the traditional approach to proprietary solutions and spawn
a level of creativity not yet seen in this segment."

Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment will deliver many of
the most compelling requirements of automotive-optimized Linux through
middleware optimized for today's demanding infotainment devices.
Enhancements will include the following:

-- Consumer Electronics Connectivity: Connectivity with popular
CE devices such as the iPod(R).

-- Three-Dimensional Graphic Support: Support for rich 3D
graphics now common in navigation systems.

-- Multimedia Support: Support for a wide breadth of consumer
electronics, video and audio standards.

-- Power State Management: Provides the framework for how the
system performs during changes to vehicle and device power
state.

-- Fast Boot/Initialization: Working with Power State Management,
ensures infotainment device is available within the prescribed
timeframe of an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM).

-- Automotive Standards Connectivity: Interoperability with
Controller Area Network (CAN), a popular bus for in-vehicle
communications and industrial automation applications, and
Media-Oriented Systems Transport (MOST), the leading standard
for automotive multimedia networks.

"Mobile infotainment products are undergoing a dramatic technology
shift as multimedia, communications and consumer devices converge in
the automobile," said Dr. Robert W. Schumacher, Delphi general
director of Advanced Products and Business Development. "A
standardized Linux-based infotainment platform for the automotive
industry breaks down the silos of adjacent industries, bringing
together feature sets like mobile handsets, automotive and personal
devices, at a faster pace and helps to lower costs. Delphi is adopting
the Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment to help speed up and
expand the innovation curve of Delphi's next generation entertainment
and communications platform."

Wind River is the Official Open Source Sponsor at this year's
Telematics Detroit 2008 Conference (May 20-22) and will be exhibiting
at Booth #48/57.

About Wind River

Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization
(DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device
software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River
platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide
development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize
quality and reliability at all phases of the device software
development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda,
California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River
at www.windriver.com.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc.,
and Wind River is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems. Other
marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

Intel and Intel Atom are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the
U.S. and other countries.

iPod is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc.

Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S.
and other countries.

Wind River
Bryan Thomas, 510-749-2414
bryan.thomas@windriver.com
or
Bite Communications for Wind River
Jessica Cheney, 415-365-0382
jessica.cheney@bitepr.com

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