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The acquisition of software company Wind River is part of an Intel plan to expand into the mobile market

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has spotted a new market opportunity for its Opteron microprocessor. On Tuesday, the Sunnyvale, California, chip maker was set to announce a new program designed to make Opteron more attractive to developers of custom-designed embedded devices. Under the program, certain models of the Opteron will now be available to system manufacturers for as long as seven years, the same amount of time as the Alchemy and Geode chips that AMD sells for embedded systems, according to David Rich, director of 64-bit embedded markets.

Transmeta Corp. released six new processors for embedded systems such as point-of-sale terminals and industrial automation devices Monday, focusing on an energy-efficient design that alleviates the need for a cooling fan within the device.

Everywhere you look there are so-called corporate, product and technology wars.