With regards to OS for microcontrollers, ARM's mbed has far better low-power,security and ecosystem story. And as far as Linux OS's - nobody will buy an OS tha

With regards to OS for microcontrollers, ARM's mbed has far better low-power,security and ecosystem story. And as far as Linux OS's - nobody will buy an OS that can't be ported to ARM and be done so reasonably, so i'm not sure Wind River helps Intel that much in selling chips.