On February 5, 2010, Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation's acquisition of Virtutech. Read the press release. This process is now complete and Simics is now a Wind River product.

Simics customers report the following benefits from using Simics:

• Scalability—Using Simics as a unifying infrastructure, OEMs are able to develop multiple products from the same platform (typically from low-end to high-end), supporting virtually any OS from Linux to real-time operating systems.
• Fast and accelerated development/debug/test cycles—Given time-to-market constraints and the general demand for high-quality products in the market, Simics’ ability to not only model hardware but also to accelerate the development process is significantly decreasing development time by up to two-thirds as compared with other approaches.
• Reuse and flexibility—With Simics, customers can reuse functional models for subsequent products and projects, saving the company from future project expenditure that otherwise duplicate these efforts. Furthermore, Simics’ architecture enables customers to easily incorporate the virtualized systems development strategy into their existing development environment so that no additional architectural changes are needed, thereby saving time and cost.
• Development asset—Using Simics, our customers are building libraries of models that enable them to configure and distribute virtual platforms to multiple development teams, significantly reducing the cost of the actual product needed for their entire product development cycle, and providing on-time and on-demand access to assets.

Virtutech pioneered this new virtualized systems development strategy based on research originally undertaken at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). The team behind Virtutech was the first in academia to run commercial server operating systems in a simulation framework. In 1998, Virtutech became one of the first spin-offs from SICS, based on the strength of commercial projects undertaken with Ericsson, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, and was profitable in its very first year of operation.