QNX's Role in the Software-Defined Vehicle Ecosystem

Interviews with QNX, a division of BlackBerry Ltd.

2025/03/11

Summary

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  This report provides QNX's vision, strategy, technological developments, recent collaborations with vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, and its outlook on software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

  Supplemented by other materials, this report is primarily based on an interview with QNX's representatives: Mr. Louay Abdelkader, Director of Product Management for OS & Virtualization, and Mr. Angelos Lakrintis, Industry Analyst Relations Manager.

 

QNX overview

  QNX is a division of BlackBerry Ltd. It was originally founded as a Canadian company called QNX Software Systems Ltd. in 1980 and was acquired by BlackBerry in 2010. Formerly known as the “BlackBerry IoT” division, the division was renamed as “QNX” and the QNX brand was relaunched at CES 2025 in January to improve recognition and reinforce its leadership within the automotive and general embedded industries.

  QNX provides safe and secure operating systems (OS), hypervisors, middleware, and development tools for software-defined businesses across various sectors, including the automotive and commercial vehicle markets. Its software is embedded in more than 255 million vehicles globally and leveraged by the top 10 automotive OEMs, the top 7 Tier 1 suppliers, and 24 of the top 25 EV OEMs.

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