Chinese mobility technology company ECARX Group this week announced it has signed an agreement to provide advanced smart digital cockpit solutions for vehicles sold globally under the Volkswagen and Skoda brands.
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Nasdaq-listed ECARX, co-founded in 2017 by its current chairman and CEO Ziyu Shen and Eric Li (Li Shufu) – which is also the founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group – describes itself as a global automotive technology provider with capabilities to deliver turnkey solutions for next-generation smart vehicles, from system on a chip (SoC) to central computing platforms and software.
The company said it has agreed to supply complete digital cockpit solutions to the Volkswagen Group, including “the integrated hardware and software of the ECARX Antora® 1000 computing platform and ECARX Cloudpeak® software architecture.”
ECARX confirmed that a significant number of new vehicles will be launched with “a user experience defined by Volkswagen Group and ECARX”, starting in Brazil and India – with other markets to be added later on. “The combination of ECARX computing platform and architecture will power the intelligent cockpit of Skoda and Volkswagen-branded vehicles,” the company added.
The Antora® 1000 is ECARX’s fourth-generation digital cockpit computing platform, based on a 7nm high-performance SE1000 System-on-Chip (SoC) produced by SiEngine.
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By GlobalDataECARX Cloudpeak® is a flexible and modular platform based on the Android Automotive operating system and Linux. It is able to integrate services including Google Maps, Google Assistant voice control and the Google Play store, along with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay and other regional mobile ecosystems and services.
The computing platform’s operating system and the ECARX Cloudpeak® software stack were developed in-house by ECARX, to deliver a compact, affordable and energy-efficient system able to support a “high-quality user experience” based on Android OS and supporting Google Automotive Services, with further services and details to be announced.
Ziyu Shen said in a statement: “This award by the Volkswagen Group is a great opportunity for ECARX to partner with one of the most well-known and respected automakers in the world, and also a significant step forward for ECARX as a global company, partnering with international OEMs to deliver the best in intelligent automotive technology.”
