[ Thanks to Henry for this link.
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“The deal is the second this year to shake up the
embedded Linux OS, tools, and service market. The first came this
May, when Intel acquired Wind River Systems for $884M. Following
Wind River’s lead, MontaVista says that after the acquisition, it
will retain its brand name, and continue to operate independently.“Who is Cavium? Cavium is best-known for multi-core networking
processors based on a custom derivative of the MIPS64 architecture.
It’s flagship Octeon processor family scales from single-core to
16-core models, with software compatibility across the range. Since
networks come in all shapes and sizes, that’s a big selling
point.”