Intel Completes Wind River Acquisition
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This acquired expertise dovetails nicely with Intel's stated plans for Atom. Long-term, the CPU giant intends to build an Atom-powered ecosystem that stretches from budget smartphones to netbooks (and possibly notebooks as well). Whether Santa Clara can actually pull this off remains to be seen—the Atom processors we've seen to-date are merely the precursor to the future chips Intel plans to build. Regardless, bringing additional software development resources into the family fold could give Intel an efficiency and power consumption edge when coding for Atom.