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Wind River Partners with CoreAVI to Enable Intel GPUs for Safety Critical Platforms Core Avionics & Industrial (CoreAVI) and Wind River have announced the availability of safety critical graphics drivers and DO-178C Level A safety certification support for a broad selection of Intel processors. CoreAVI’s HD 4000/5000 OpenGL driver suite supports Intel HD 4000/5000 graphics processors integrated with Atom, Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs and SoCs. The graphics driver suite supports the robust safety partitioning and secure virtualization/separation capabilities available with Wind River’s real-time operating system suite, including VxWorks 7, VxWorks 653 and VxWorks MILS. CoreAVI’s and Wind River’s solutions are successfully flying together in aircraft display systems by many of the world’s leading avionics manufacturers, such as Boeing, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell and Cobham Aerospace. The latest collaboration and support for Intel graphics architectures enables military, aerospace, automotive, medical, industrial, and other high reliability system manufactures to deploy Intel’s unique processor capabilities, including multi-core silicon and secure partitioning for DO-178C certified platforms. “Wind River has partnered with CoreAVI to offer their Intel HD safety critical graphics drivers in conjunction with Wind River operating systems in order to deliver our customers a complete graphics solution and DO-178C Level A certification package based on both Intel CPU and GPU processor architectures,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “CoreAVI and Wind River’s combined solutions enable avionics and high reliability system manufacturers to harness the high performance capabilities available with Intel’s wide range of processors.”
Bsquare Renews Microsoft Windows Mobile Distribution Agreements Bsquare has announced the renewals of the company’s Windows Mobile Distribution Agreements with Microsoft Corporation. With these renewals, Bsquare continues to provide software licensing to the main geographic markets where Windows Mobile devices are developed by leading edge vertical OEMs. Bsquare complements this licensing relationship with value added engineering services and technical support. As its OEM customers move forward with new product roadmaps, they will be offered the MobileV platform to transition new products to an Intel based platform, running both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 operating systems. Windows 10 is critical to Microsoft and Bsquare for much broader IoT solutions development. Bsquare has been a Microsoft authorized Value-Added Provider of Windows Mobile Operating Systems since November 2009. The agreement, which is effective for the period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, renews the Bsquare Microsoft Windows Mobile distribution relationship for the 6th consecutive year. The renewals of the Microsoft Bsquare distribution relationship for the Windows Mobile Operating System in Japan, the Americas (excluding Cuba), Taiwan and the region comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) lay the framework for the continued migration to Bsquare’s expanding MobileV portfolio. These agreements are in addition to Bsquare’s existing Windows General Embedded Distribution Agreements, which are also valid through June 30, 2016.
Connected Cars to Represent 20% of Global Market by 2019 A recent report by Juniper Research forecasts that the telematics sector will continue to outperform all other M2M markets over the next five years, in revenue terms, with one in five passenger vehicles connected globally by 2019. Smartphone-based models have become the key disruptor for M2M, as sectors such as healthcare, consumer electronics and retail continue to evolve. The report forecasts that the M2M sector will generate service revenues of over $40 billion globally by 2019 - doubling the size of today’s market. The new research, M2M & Embedded Devices: Strategic Analysis & Vertical Market Forecasts 2015-2019, observed that the roll-out of smart metering initiatives will see rapid up-take over the next six years, driven in part by governments’ ambitions to increase efficiency. According to research author Anthony Cox, “Both India and China are expected to see rapid adoption of smart metering as new metering infrastructure is installed and smart cities are created.” The utility sector however is not expected to generate similar revenues to that of the connected automotive sector. Agriculture and environmental applications are starting to emerge as important new sectors in the M2M market, with applications as diverse as wild-life and farm animal monitoring, and increasing productivity through precise field mapping. M&&A is also beginning to bring together some of the industry’s most powerful players, such as the merger of KORE Telematics and Raco Wireless, and the acquisition by Huawei of the M2M technology start-up Neul.
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