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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: bythepark who wrote (22836)4/16/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: the hube  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
WIND and the automotive market

Electronic controls to replace camshafts in diesel engines
eet.com

Is there Wind inside here as well?

International is using the electrohydraulic valve to control movement of its engines' valves and fuel injectors. Control for both systems is currently provided by a Siemens electronics module containing two Infineon 167 microprocessors. The Infineon processors, which operate at 24 MHz, use a reduced instruction set (RISC) and a sophisticated interrupt structure to enable real-time operation.

"In an automotive environment, you have to have real-time operation," said Kregg Wiggins, director of powertrain electronics for Siemens Automotive North America (Auburn Hills, Mich.). "Unlike a PC, everything has to happen in real-time here, because if your fuel injector fires a half-second late, you'll notice it."


Siemens/Infineon is listed in Wind's automotive page as a customer and the C16x processor is listed under the examples of supported by Wind's automotive division.
windriver.com
The automotive electronic systems industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, forecasted to grow to $91.4 billion by the year 2002 (Strategy Analyst Market Report).

In a recent conference call, Wind management stated that of all of the car navigation systems they were aware of, only 2 did not run on Wind's products.

Sure looks like another bowling pin to me.
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