M&A Deal Summary

Intel Acquires Wind River

On July 17, 2009, Intel acquired software company Wind River from Interpeak AB for 884M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Intel’s 9th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Intel’s 10th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Intel’s 35th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Intel’s 21st transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • Wind River was divested to a consortium of buyers in 2018.
  • Wind River was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2022 for 4.3B USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2009-07-17
Target Wind River
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Intel
Sellers(s) Interpeak AB
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 884M USD

Target

Wind River

Alameda, California, United States
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Wind River engages in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, Wind River offers a comprehensive, edge-to-cloud software portfolio designed to address the challenges and opportunities critical infrastructure companies face when evolving and modernizing their systems as they work to realize the full potential of IoT. Wind River was established in 1981 and is based in Alameda, California.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Intel

Santa Clara, California, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Semiconductors
Employees122,900
Revenue 79.0B USD (2021)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Intel's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Entrance to Intel's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Intel is a multinational semiconductor chip maker. The Company's products are incorporated into desktop computers, wearables, servers, tablets, smartphones, and other devices. Intel was formed in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 44 of 96
Sector (Software) 9 of 29
Type (Divestiture) 4 of 9
State (California) 21 of 39
Country (United States) 35 of 62
Year (2009) 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 10 of 29
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-12-01 Swiftfoot Graphics AB

Lund, Sweden

Swiftfoot Graphics AB provides software culling solutions for GPUs.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-01 Cilk Arts

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Cilk technology offers parallel extensions that are tightly tied into a compiler. This has pluses and minuses when compared with compiler independent methods like Intel Threading Building Blocks. Having both is better than either alone, and both will have strong followings.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Interpeak AB

Stockholm, Sweden
Category Company
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Interpeak AB provides networking solutions for embedded systems. The company offers networking, security, and mobility products.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Software) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
State (California) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2009) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-03-20 Wind River

Alameda, California, United States

Wind River engages in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, Wind River offers a comprehensive, edge-to-cloud software portfolio designed to address the challenges and opportunities critical infrastructure companies face when evolving and modernizing their systems as they work to realize the full potential of IoT. Wind River was established in 1981 and is based in Alameda, California.

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