《財富》雜志獨家獲悉，英特爾將對風河（Wind River）業務進行重組。

風河公司是英特爾的全資子公司，也是全球領先的智能互連系統軟件提供商，其一直保持獨立運營。但這一地位將在2017年終結。屆時，這家公司將徹底并入母公司。

目前，英特爾尚未對外公布這一消息，但公司發言人確認，公司已在本周早些時候向風河公司員工發布了一份聲明，概述了重組計劃。

英特爾公司在2009年以8.84億美元的價格，收購了風河公司，該公司的主營業務是小型設備和其他非PC設備的嵌入式操作系統。這些小型快速的操作系統，對于物聯網至關重要。物聯網作為一個新興市場，由數以十億計的互聯設備組成，比如跟蹤身體健康的可穿戴設備，或者大型工業設備等，這些設備可收集海量的數據。

上周，《財富》雜志獨家報道了風河公司總裁巴里?梅因茨悄然離開英特爾的消息。1月6日晚些時候，梅因茨以MobileIron公司新任首席執行官的身份出現在公眾視野中。

英特爾發言人表示，將風河并入母公司，是公司邏輯流程的下一個步驟。她提及，除風河外，英特爾還有另外一家公司——邁克菲（McAfee）與風河類似。2011年，英特爾以65.9億美元收購了這家計算機安全公司，并保持其獨立運營。

發言人稱，此次重組的目的是促進風河與英特爾其他部門的良好協作，重組后的風河將保留其品牌，繼續支持非英特爾處理器。

據知情人士透露，風河方面擔心重組會導致裁員和其他連鎖反應。他們認為，此舉是為了整合英特爾首席執行官科在奇的一系列努力。科在奇一直在努力將英特爾打造成后PC時代的一支強大力量，繼續往日的輝煌。這是一項艱難的任務，而且英特爾并不能確保成功。

況且，從以往的記錄來看，英特爾最大限度利用收購對象的能力并不令人放心，就連公司負責并購的高管溫戴爾?布魯克斯最近也向OregonLive承認了這一點。不過，身為英特爾并購副總裁的布魯克斯堅定地表示，隨著英特爾最近（同時也是規模最大）的收購交易的結束，這種狀況會有所改變。最近，英特爾以167億美元的價格，收購了芯片巨頭Altera及其現場可編程邏輯門陣列專有技術。

對于英特爾會如何處理風河公司業務，外界仍在拭目以待。(財富中文網)

譯者：劉進龍/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.