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BlackBerry Launches QNX Everywhere to Address Global Embedded Software Developer Skills Shortage

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CES -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today launched QNX® Everywhere, a new initiative to address growing global demand for highly-skilled embedded systems' developers. As markets including automotive, industrial, robotics and medical pursue a software-defined future, software engineers familiar with the most popular platforms and technologies are in high demand. With QNX Everywhere, BlackBerry is offering easy access for students, academic and research organizations, and hobbyists to develop knowledge of QNX® technologies that are trusted by the leading eight medical device manufacturers and more than 45 of the leading vehicle manufacturers worldwide.

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  • New QNX Everywhere initiative offers easy access to QNX software for academia, advanced research organizations and hobbyists to boost skills development
    LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CES -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today launched QNX® Everywhere, a new initiative to address growing global demand for highly-skilled embedded systems' developers.
  • "The QNX Everywhere initiative offers frictionless access to QNX software for students, hobbyists, and academic and advanced research organizations.
  • By making QNX accessible to these enthusiasts and groups, we hope to increase availability of valuable skills across the global developer ecosystem."
  • QNX Everywhere will introduce elements including self-service access to QNX software, on-demand training, QNX-optimized open-source projects and easy access to cloud-enabled development tools.

Black Sesame Technologies Unveils Innovative Autonomous Driving Solutions at CES 2024

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 9th, Black Sesame Technologies, a leading intelligent vehicle SoC and solution provider, revealed a range of innovative products and solutions at CES 2024. Notably, the company introduced its high-performance, automotive-grade autonomous driving chip, the Huashan Series A1000, and the intelligent vehicle cross-domain computing platform, the Wudang C1200 Series. The event also marked the announcement of numerous strategic partnerships, fostering the growth of robust, collaborative ecosystems in the automotive sector.

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  • LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 9th, Black Sesame Technologies, a leading intelligent vehicle SoC and solution provider, revealed a range of innovative products and solutions at CES 2024.
  • At CES, Black Sesame Technologies highlighted the A1000's broad range of capabilities, showcasing features such as integrated driving and parking, urban navigation, valet parking, 3D surround-view parking assistance, vehicle-road cooperation, and driver monitoring systems.
  • Black Sesame Technologies Shanhai development toolchain, in conjunction with the Huashan series of autonomous driving computing chips, comes equipped with comprehensive development kits and software tools needed for algorithm development.
  • Black Sesame Technologies is dedicated to unlocking new opportunities for industry chain partners and the broader ecosystem through continuous chip innovation and technological advancement.

Mobility in Harmony (MIH) Consortium, a Foxconn initiative, Selects BlackBerry IVY to Power its Next-Generation Electric Production Vehicles

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

WATERLOO, ON and TAIPEI, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobility in Harmony (MIH) Consortium, a  Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) initiative, today announced that it has selected BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and the BlackBerry IVY® platform to power its next generation Project X, and future passenger and commercial vehicle reference platforms. This collaboration builds on the earlier partnership established between MIH and BlackBerry in July 2023.

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  • Deploying IVY™ in its vehicle digital cockpit will help MIH's vehicles with a rich suite of applications for real time monitoring of the vehicle's health and performance.
  • "We are extremely excited by this collaboration with BlackBerry IVY as it will provide our electric vehicle platform with scale and the ability to accelerate development and innovation for EV and mobility marketplaces.
  • IVY allows us to offer 'out of the box' fleet management capabilities in our vehicles, powered by AI-generated fleet insights.
  • Vito Giallorenzo, SVP and General Manager, BlackBerry IVY, commented, "We are very pleased that MIH has selected BlackBerry IVY platform to power its electric vehicle platform.

Stellantis, BlackBerry QNX and AWS Launch Virtual Cockpit, Transforming In-Vehicle Software Engineering

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.

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  • The new platform uses the QNX® Hypervisor in the cloud from BlackBerry , which is now on early access release via AWS Marketplace within the QNX Accelerate portfolio of cloud-based tools.
  • Accessing QNX Hypervisor via AWS Marketplace enables Stellantis to include a virtual cockpit high-performance computing (HPC) simulation into a cloud environment.
  • In 2022, Stellantis selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms and the companies began work on Stellantis' purpose-built, in-house VEW.
  • BlackBerry QNX launched QNX Accelerate in January 2023 with its portfolio initially featuring QNX® Neutrino® RTOS 7.1 and the QNX® OS for Safety 2.2.3, each provided as Amazon Machine Images allowing QNX customers to run a QNX OS natively on AWS cloud hardware.

BlackBerry QNX Announces General Availability of QNX SDP 8.0, its Scalable, High-Performance Foundation for Next Generation Automotive and IoT Systems

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Monday, January 8, 2024

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CES -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced general availability of its new QNX® Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0. Combined with the next generation QNX® OS 8.0, the platform delivers a scalable, high-performance real-time operating system available for today's embedded computing industry.

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  • Combined with the next generation QNX® OS 8.0, the platform delivers a scalable, high-performance real-time operating system available for today's embedded computing industry.
  • The fifth generation QNX SDP 8.0 architecture builds on decades of development and a field-proven safe and secure platform, while maintaining its POSIX API to provide an instantly productive environment for both QNX® and Linux® developers.
  • QNX SDP 8.0 lays the foundation for the entire line of next generation BlackBerry® QNX® portfolio products, including QNX® OS for Safety, QNX® Hypervisor and QNX® Hypervisor for Safety.
  • To learn more about BlackBerry QNX, please visit BlackBerry.QNX.com .

BlackBerry Launches QNX Sound, the Complete Audio and Acoustics Innovation Platform for Software-Defined Vehicles

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Monday, January 8, 2024

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CES -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced the launch of QNX® Sound, an innovative development platform that decouples audio and acoustics software from the vehicle hardware to give audio designers and engineers complete creative freedom to deliver new and exciting in-vehicle sound experiences.

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  • This includes a complete out-of-the-box library of automotive acoustics functional modules for telephony, safety alerting, noise reduction, sound enhancement, media playback, etc.
  • "In the software-defined vehicle age, audio becomes a new playing field for innovation and differentiation," said John Wall, Senior Vice President, and Head of QNX at BlackBerry.
  • "QNX Sound is the ultimate digital audio platform for the automotive industry and the most comprehensive foundation available for innovation.
  • Working hand in hand with the team at BlackBerry QNX, we've integrated a fully scalable Dirac plug-in featuring all our technologies that seamlessly integrate with the QNX Sound platform.

AMD Reshapes Automotive Industry with Advanced AI Engines and Elevated In-Vehicle Experiences at CES 2024

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced it will showcase automotive innovation at CES 2024 and expand its portfolio with the introduction of two new devices, the Versal™ AI Edge XA adaptive SoC and Ryzen™ Embedded V2000A Series processor. The devices underscore AMD automotive technology leadership and are designed to serve key automotive focus segments including infotainment, advanced driver safety and autonomous driving. Working alongside a growing automotive partner ecosystem, AMD will demonstrate at CES 2024 the broad range of capabilities and applications for these new devices in automotive solutions available today and in the future.

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  • The devices underscore AMD automotive technology leadership and are designed to serve key automotive focus segments including infotainment, advanced driver safety and autonomous driving.
  • Working alongside a growing automotive partner ecosystem, AMD will demonstrate at CES 2024 the broad range of capabilities and applications for these new devices in automotive solutions available today and in the future.
  • The AI Engines are capable of handling different types of AI models such as classification and feature tracking.
  • Visit the AMD booth at LVCC West Hall #W319 at CES 2024 to learn more about AMD automotive solutions and speak with AMD experts.

Lantronix and P3 Collaborate to Create End-to-End IVI Solution

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

IRVINE, Calif. and STUTTGART, Germany, Jan. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of secure turnkey solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and the Intelligent IT market, and P3 Digital Services, a technology leader in In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), together announced their partnership and game-changing technology pre-integration.

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  • Lantronix’s proven and popular embedded in-vehicle infotainment platform is now pre-integrated with SPARQ OS , the flagship IVI software platform created by P3 Digital Services.
  • At the same time, with proven and trusted technology interoperation, the OEM can significantly save engineering and management time.
  • “Our partnership with P3 leverages the respective and complementary expertise of both parties,” said Jacques Issa, VP of Marketing at Lantronix.
  • SPARQ OS is the dynamic and rapidly developing IVI solution developed by P3 and is based on Android Automotive OS, the fastest-growing in-vehicle operating system in the world today.

BlackBerry to Showcase Innovative Automotive Solutions Powered by the BlackBerry IVY Connected Vehicle Data Platform at CES 2024

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Monday, December 18, 2023

WATERLOO, ON, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --  At CES 2024, BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) will be showcasing the breadth and power of its BlackBerry IVY® connected vehicle data platform through in-vehicle and virtualized demos with a range of ecosystem partners. The BlackBerry IVY platform enables developers across industries to design and deploy insights-enabled automotive services more quickly, leveraging in-vehicle AI-enabled processing and a developer-friendly platform. This ease of development has led to a growing diversity of solutions developed on the BlackBerry IVY platform, giving automakers new opportunities to quickly enable additional services to differentiate and potentially monetize the connected car.

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  • The BlackBerry IVY platform enables developers across industries to design and deploy insights-enabled automotive services more quickly, leveraging in-vehicle AI-enabled processing and a developer-friendly platform.
  • This ease of development has led to a growing diversity of solutions developed on the BlackBerry IVY platform, giving automakers new opportunities to quickly enable additional services to differentiate and potentially monetize the connected car.
  • This year's IVY™ showcase at CES will feature a wide array of mobility applications; IVY powered in-vehicle AI demonstrations will include:
    COMPREDICT hardware sensor replacement solutions, utilizing virtual sensors to create cost savings and monetize vehicle health insights.
  • Live demos of other BlackBerry IVY powered applications will also be showcased in the West Hall at CES with Mitsubishi Electric (#3151), MIH (#7216), and Intellias (#7075).

Marelli at CES 2024: Discover the Journey to Design-Led Innovation

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

DETROIT, Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marelli, a leading mobility technology supplier to the automotive sector, will showcase its latest innovations at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, NV, January 9-11, 2024, at the Wynn Hotel. The invitation-only, curated experience will introduce guests to Marelli's approach to Design-Led Innovation.  

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  • The invitation-only, curated experience will introduce guests to Marelli's approach to Design-Led Innovation.
  • Those visiting Marelli's hospitality suite at CES will be treated to a customized journey stepping through the phases of the vehicle co-creation process.
  • Their feature-based selections will be activated in a demo car later in the journey.
  • "Our focus on design-led innovation combined with the value of our strong relationships with AWS, QNX, and Qualcomm, allows us to create broad solutions for our customers at Marelli speed."