diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tbb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tbb/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..13ec42f1ba2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tbb/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "tbb-4.0-u5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/uploads/77/187/4.0%20update%205/tbb40_20120613oss_src.tgz";
+    sha256 = "aaa98146049e55f6ac969298340eeb49df61395403fcc1480824a4ecd0d46192";
+  };
+
+  checkTarget = "test";
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/{lib,share/doc}
+    cp "build/"*release*"/"*so* $out/lib/
+    mv include $out/
+    rm $out/include/index.html
+    mv doc/html $out/share/doc/tbb
+  '';
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://threadingbuildingblocks.org/";
+    description = "Intel Thread Building Blocks C++ Library";
+    license = "LGPLv3+";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Intel Threading Building Blocks offers a rich and complete approach to
+      expressing parallelism in a C++ program. It is a library that helps you
+      take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be a
+      threading expert. Intel TBB is not just a threads-replacement library. It
+      represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform
+      details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance.
+    '';
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1bafd16fbc04..a17b51d39c56 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2522,6 +2522,8 @@ let
 
   swiProlog = callPackage ../development/compilers/swi-prolog { };
 
+  tbb = callPackage ../development/libraries/tbb { };
+
   tinycc = callPackage ../development/compilers/tinycc { };
 
   urweb = callPackage ../development/compilers/urweb { };