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BlackBerry Limited BB recently announced strategic decisions focused on expanding its QNX division with innovation and advancements. QNX introduced a pioneer automotive software solution to streamline and enhance digital cockpit development. It also strengthened developer support to drive innovation in embedded software across industries. Further, QNX has teamed up with Microsoft MSFT to accelerate Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) development using Azure Cloud. QNX, Vector and TTTech Auto's collaborative effort to transform the vehicle software platform is another encouraging development.
Investors responded positively to these announcements, with BB’s shares gaining 11.14% in trading and closing the session at $4.09 on Jan. 06.
BB recently decided to relaunch the QNX brand, emphasizing its focus on SDVs and mission-critical applications. BB renamed its IoT division to "QNX", driven by valuable feedback from customers, partners, employees and stakeholders.
How Does BB-MSFT Partnership Benefit the Auto Industry?
QNX and Microsoft partnered to aid automakers with the task of building, validating and refining software within the cloud to power the evolution of SDVs. The partnership will bring the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0 to Microsoft Azure, offering automakers a comprehensive cloud-based environment to accelerate innovation while reducing development risks. Also, QNX and Microsoft plan to extend their collaboration to include the QNX Hypervisor and the QNX Cabin.
BlackBerry unveiled the QNX Cabin, a cutting-edge framework enabling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to virtualize digital cockpit development in the cloud. This approach lets developers "shift left," creating, testing and optimizing code in the cloud before moving it to the production System on Chip hardware. This cloud-first model enhances collaboration across teams, accelerates workflows, simplifies processes and reduces time-to-market. QNX Cabin simplifies mixed-criticality development by integrating safety-critical systems on the QNX Operating System (OS) with consumer applications on Android Automotive and Linux.
QNX will showcase its full range of automotive solutions at CES 2025, which will be held from Jan. 7–10 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. QNX will also demonstrate the capabilities of its SDP 8.0 on Azure at the same event.
BB Empowers Developers With QNX Everywhere Project
Under the QNX Everywhere initiative, students, schools, researchers and hobbyists can now avail of the QNX SDP 8.0 for free. This includes resources and on-demand training, enabling aspiring developers to enhance their skills and create innovative solutions and demos. Developers get a free QNX SDP 8 license, a Raspberry Pi 4 quick-start image, open-source ports and tutorials on embedded software and OS concepts.
Going forward, QNX Everywhere plans to expand collaborations with academic programs, host developer events and increase resources like source code, open-source ports and pre-built software to support developers across the globe.