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Intel quietly boosting its software in bid to get chips into smartphones
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| Intel, which has long downplayed its big software-development team, is now
| coming out with a speedy Linux-based operating system — in direct competition
| to longtime partner Microsoft — in order to break into the smartphone-chip
| market.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009284455_btintelsoftware01.html
Recent:
Atomic Warfare
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| And with Netbooks retailing under $400, compared to Microsoft Intel makes
| hardly any profit at all. So Microsoft has to die.
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| This is a huge change for Intel, which has for decades acted as Microsoft’s
| bitch, doing pretty much whatever Redmond demanded for fear of being
| written-out of the next Windows PC hardware spec in favor of AMD or even IBM.
| But that was the old Microsoft. The Microsoft of today isn’t nearly as
| powerful, whether they yet know it or not.
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http://www.cringely.com/2009/06/atomic-warfare/
Analysis: Intel rides Wind River beyond the PC
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| Intel Corp.'s acquisition of Wind River Systems Inc. is another indicator of
| the sea change occurring inside the world's biggest semiconductor maker—along
| with the rise of Linux across all markets.
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| The x86 giant is expanding beyond big custom processors for its core desktop
| PC market and into a variety of system-on-chip (SoC) designs targeting a wide
| range of mobile, consumer and embedded markets. The industry-wide shift to
| multicore processors is also driving a need for a whole new set of parallel
| software tools.
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http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217701836
Intel buys Wind River: the End of the Wintel Duopoly?
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| Obviously, Intel has to tread carefully here, since it can't trumpet that
| Linux side too much, but the reality is rather stronger than those neutral
| statements would suggest.
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| When I interviewed Wind River's Chief Marketing Officer last year, here's
| what he said when I explored the Linux angle...
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2246&blogid=14
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