CPU vendor buys OS vendor, Part II

摘要

I know I'm a little late to the party on this one, but I need to put my two cents in here. When Intel made the acquisition of Wind River, I was all over it, so it's only fair that I make a comment on what looks to be a similar situation, Cavi-um's acquisition of MontaVista. It's a similar situation because it's a microprocessor vendor swallowing up an operating system vendor. The only difference is that it's on a smaller scale (a significantly smaller scale). Intel reportedly paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 million for Wind, while Cavium paid (only) $50 million.