[10] On January 11, 2022, Wind River announced that it was acquired by Aptiv, an auto parts company, for $4.3 billion in cash.

Wind River's Linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for embedded devices.

Historically, Wind River Linux has supported a variety of architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, IA32 and SPARC.

The current release of Wind River Linux supports a variety of ARM, IA32, and IA64 platforms with both standard and realtime (PREEMPT RT) kernels.

[40] Wind River charges a subscription to provide commercial bug and CVE fixes for their Linux products.

In 2004, Wind River announced a partnership with Red Hat to create a new Linux-based distribution for embedded devices.

[46] In 2008, Wind River announced cooperation with BMW, Intel and Magneti Marelli for development of a Linux-based open-source platform to control in-car electronics,[47] which was extended in the GENIVI Alliance in 2009.

Wind River Studio is a cloud-native platform for the deployment and servicing of mission-critical intelligent edge systems.