英特尔将进行重大业务重组

《财富》杂志独家获悉，英特尔将对风河（Wind River）业务进行重组。

风河公司是英特尔的全资子公司，也是全球领先的智能互连系统软件提供商，其一直保持独立运营。但这一地位将在2017年终结。届时，这家公司将彻底并入母公司。

目前，英特尔尚未对外公布这一消息，但公司发言人确认，公司已在本周早些时候向风河公司员工发布了一份声明，概述了重组计划。

英特尔公司在2009年以8.84亿美元的价格，收购了风河公司，该公司的主营业务是小型设备和其他非PC设备的嵌入式操作系统。这些小型快速的操作系统，对于物联网至关重要。物联网作为一个新兴市场，由数以十亿计的互联设备组成，比如跟踪身体健康的可穿戴设备，或者大型工业设备等，这些设备可收集海量的数据。

上周，《财富》杂志独家报道了风河公司总裁巴里•梅因茨悄然离开英特尔的消息。1月6日晚些时候，梅因茨以MobileIron公司新任首席执行官的身份出现在公众视野中。

英特尔发言人表示，将风河并入母公司，是公司逻辑流程的下一个步骤。她提及，除风河外，英特尔还有另外一家公司——迈克菲（McAfee）与风河类似。2011年，英特尔以65.9亿美元收购了这家计算机安全公司，并保持其独立运营。

发言人称，此次重组的目的是促进风河与英特尔其他部门的良好协作，重组后的风河将保留其品牌，继续支持非英特尔处理器。

据知情人士透露，风河方面担心重组会导致裁员和其他连锁反应。他们认为，此举是为了整合英特尔首席执行官科在奇的一系列努力。科在奇一直在努力将英特尔打造成后PC时代的一支强大力量，继续往日的辉煌。这是一项艰难的任务，而且英特尔并不能确保成功。

况且，从以往的记录来看，英特尔最大限度利用收购对象的能力并不令人放心，就连公司负责并购的高管温戴尔•布鲁克斯最近也向OregonLive承认了这一点。不过，身为英特尔并购副总裁的布鲁克斯坚定地表示，随着英特尔最近（同时也是规模最大）的收购交易的结束，这种状况会有所改变。最近，英特尔以167亿美元的价格，收购了芯片巨头Altera及其现场可编程逻辑门阵列专有技术。

对于英特尔会如何处理风河公司业务，外界仍在拭目以待。(财富中文网)

译者：刘进龙/汪皓

Wind River’s status as a wholly-owned-but-sort-of-independent subsidiary of Intel will end next year when it will be fully integrated into the parent company. The news was not announced, but an Intel spokeswoman confirmed that a statement outlining the plan was sent to Wind River employees earlier this week.

Intel intc bought Wind River, which focuses on embedded operating systems for small devices and other non-PC gadgets, for $884 million in 2009. These small, fast operating systems are critical for the Internet of things, an emerging market built on billions of connected devices from tiny wearables for monitoring fitness to massive industrial machines that collect huge troves of data.

Last week, Fortune reported exclusively that Wind River president Barry Mainz had quietly left Intel. Late Wednesday, Mainz was introduced as the new chief executive of MobileIron

The Intel spokeswoman said the incorporation of Wind River into the broader company is the next step in a logical process. The only other Intel acquisition that remained a subsidiary this long was McAfee, the computer security company that Intel bought for $6.59 billion in 2011, she noted.

The idea is to align Wind River, which will retain its branding and continue to support non-Intel processors, with other Intel groups to assure better collaboration, the spokeswoman maintained.

But sources close to Wind River worry about layoffs and other ripple effects from this move. They tend to see it as a consolidation of efforts by Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich as he continues to push the company to be as big a force in the post-PC era as it has been in the past. That is a formidable task, and Intel’s success is not assured.

And, Intel’s track record of wringing the most out of past acquisitions has been spotty, something even the company’s top M&A executive, Wendell Brooks recently acknowledged to OregonLive. Brooks, who is corporate vice president of mergers and acquisitions, vowed that this will change with Intel’s latest (and biggest) purchase to date: Its just-completed $16.7 billion deal for Altera and its field programmable gate array expertise.

But meanwhile people will be watching what Intel does with Wind River as well.