ByYTON's in-car experiences to be powered by Blackberry

BlackBerry Limited and intelligent electric vehicle maker BYTON have announced that the innovative in-car experience within BYTON’s first series of production vehicles will feature BlackBerry QNX technology.

BYTON chose BlackBerry as a foundational piece of BYTON’s innovative in-car experience because of its ability to partition and isolate safety-critical systems from non-safety critical systems, ensuring that critical systems are isolated and can run safely at all times. As part of the deal, BlackBerry will license its BlackBerry QNX technology to BYTON, including its QNX SDP 7.0 real-time operating system and Hypervisor 2.0 software.

“We are excited to partner with BlackBerry QNX, the market leader for safety-certified and secure next-generation connected car software, who will help us deliver BYTON’s Shared Experience Display, which serves as a comprehensive communal lounge experience for in-car communication, entertainment and work,” said Jeff Chung, Vice President, Intelligent Car Experience at BYTON.

At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, BYTON premiered its M-Byte concept car and announced plans to design and build a line of smart premium electric cars with Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving capabilities for the Chinese, US and European markets. Sales are set to begin in China in 2019, and sales in the United States and Europe are planned to start in 2020.

BlackBerry currently provides OEMs around the world with state-of-the-art technology to protect hardware, software, applications and end-to-end systems from cyberattacks. BlackBerry’s systems in automotive design have won awards with Baidu, Delphi, Denso, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Visteon, Jaguar Land Rover and others.

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