Intel, obviously not hurting too much from a recent $1.5 billion anti-trust fine, has just spent $884 million purchasing Wind River, which makes embedded systems software. Why would it do that?

Intel ranked as the seventh-best global brand, just behind Coca-Cola and McDonald's and higher than Apple, Hewlett-Packard or Dell, in a recent survey from Interbrand. But the "Intel Inside" sticker ...