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Wind River purchased by Intel

Posted on June 5, 2009 by admin

If anything, Wind River’s inability to breakout, despite a once Microsoft-like position of dominance, is a by-product of their failure to meaningfully go “up the stack” and away from their historical focus on the silicon layer as a primary differentiation … Continue reading →

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Meaning of concurrent programs and IP

Posted on July 17, 2008 by admin

Most of the new draft of the Concurrent Programs paper has to do with trying to specify problems and solutions in synchronization via an atomic  “compare and swap” operation. Even these operations are surprisingly complicated once put under the microscope … Continue reading →

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