Global software companies Vector Korea, QNX, and TT Tech Auto are joining hands to develop a vehicle software platform, reducing the complexity and cost of software integration and focusing on brand differentiation.

Vector Korea (CEO Ji-Hwan Jang, Vector Korea), a global automotive, aerospace, and transportation electronic system development software company, announced on the 4th that Vector, QNX, a subsidiary of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB), and TTTech Auto announced a multi-year global collaboration for the joint development of a vehicle software platform.

The collaboration aims to help automakers reduce the complexity and cost of software integration and focus on brand differentiation.

Today's automakers face a dilemma: developing and maintaining a robust vehicle software platform requires significant costs and resources.

With multiple software vendors involved in vehicle ECUs, integration and upgrade costs increase, and problems such as software incompatibilities, performance issues, and production delays arise.

Hardware dependencies also exacerbate the problem, leading to vendor lock-in and limiting portability across different modules and programs.

The vehicle software platform provided by QNX, Vector, and TT Tech Auto solves these problems. It provides a robust software foundation that can solve problems.

The platform helps consumers develop the brand-differentiating applications and services they want by addressing performance issues, complex configuration requirements, and safety certification challenges.

Additionally, automakers can embrace contributions from new ecosystem members through open and transparent multi-party collaborative governance.

Meeting the automotive industry’s highest functional safety (ISO 26262 ASIL D) and security (ISO 21434) standards, this vehicle software platform is lightweight and certified, simple by design, inherently high-performance and scalable across the vehicle.

This will enable automakers to accelerate their software-defined vehicle (SDV) development efforts, optimize costs and deliver better customer experiences.

The core of this vehicle software platform is developed and managed through a collaboration between QNX and Vector, which combines their expertise in safe and secure operating systems and proven automotive middleware solutions.

Vector provides deep knowledge of tooling and test solutions, while TT Tech Auto provides expertise in advanced task and communication scheduling, and design-based error prevention approaches.

This collaboration demonstrates a shift from a traditional value chain to a value network, and its value is expected to be further enhanced through additional ecosystem players joining and open source contributions after the platform launch.