Kevin Dallas named to role of CEO and member of the Board of Directors. 2020: Verizon uses Wind River's software infrastructure for its deployment of virtualized 5G RAN. 2020: Wind River becomes first and only to achieve The Open Group FACE™ Conformance for Linux. 2021: Perseverance Mars becomes fourth Mars rover running VxWorks operating system. 2021: Vodafone selects Wind River as a partner to build Europe's first commercial open RAN network. 2022: Wind River was acquired by Aptiv from TPG Capital for $4.3 billion in cash. Products Among the company's products are the VxWorks real-time operating system, the Wind River Linux operating system, and the Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench IDE. VxWorks began as an add-on to the VRTX operating system in the early 1980s. Wind River Workbench superseded the previous Tornado environment. VxWorks VxWorks is the original flagship product of Wind River. It is a real-time operating system (RTOS) intended for embedded and critical infrastructure devices and systems. It supports multicore processors, 32-bit and 64-bit, for several architectures including ARM, Intel, and Power and has over one hundred board support packages (BSPs) for different hardware systems. VxWorks is a real time and deterministic operating system. Wind River Linux Wind River's Linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for embedded devices. Historically, Wind River Linux has supported a variety of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, IA32 and SPARC. The current release of Wind River Linux supports a variety of ARM, IA32, and IA64 platforms with both standard and realtime (preempt_rt) kernels. Wind River charges a subscription to provide commercial bug and CVE fixes for their Linux products. Pricing is project-based, with a flat fee for each solution built on top of Wind River Linux. There is no per-device subscription or royalty. The key capabilities for Wind River Linux are 10 year commercial support life, complete customization including kernel changes, reproducible customizations, wide range of hardware support through Board Support Packages (BSP) that are ported, maintained, and tested by Wind River. Early History In 2004, Wind River announced a partnership with Red Hat to create a new Linux-based distribution for embedded devices. Wind River has since ended its partnership with Red Hat and now ships its own Linux distribution optimized for embedded Linux development. Wind River released the first version of its embedded Linux distribution, Platform for Network Equipment - Linux Edition (PNE-LE) 1.0 in