Gasgoo Munich- Axera Semiconductor and BlackBerry's QNX unit unveiled a production-ready intelligent driving platform on August 6. The joint solution has already secured design wins from several domestic automakers, with commercialization and mass production slated to begin later this year.
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Built on Axera's latest M57 series chips and the QNX operating system, the platform fuses safety-certified software with high-performance AI inference hardware. It addresses the industry's shift toward "software-defined vehicles," balancing cost control, functional safety, performance, and scalability.
As a critical component of this transition, the smart front-view solution powers core functions like object detection and collision avoidance. That demands a platform capable of high-performance AI processing with deterministic behavior and real-time latency.
Both companies bring deep experience in ADAS. Axera ranks among China's key semiconductor suppliers for Level 2 assisted driving, while QNX technology has long underpinned safety systems across most global OEMs.
Building on this partnership, QNX plans to release a version of its SDP 8.0 platform tailored to Axera's flagship high-performance smart driving SoC. This lays the groundwork for advanced driving and cockpit-driving integration solutions, as both companies aim to drive the global evolution of intelligent vehicles through coordinated software and chip development.
