Blackberry Rises, Now Collaborates With Baidu To Make Autonomous Cars
JAKARTA - Blackberry rose again after working in the field of manufacturing smartphones. Now, Blackberry is partnering with Baidu, the Chinese-owned search engine "giant", which has agreed on a memorandum of understanding with Blackberry to build an autonomous car in the Bamboo Curtain country.
This collaboration allows Baidu's Maps to be integrated with the QNX Neutrino Blackberry real-time system. In the future, the system will be broadcast on Gac New Energy Aion vehicles from Gac Group as reported by TechCrunch, Tuesday, January 26.
Wang Yunpeng, as Senior Director of the Baidu Intelligent Driving Group Technology Department, said that the collaboration of the two companies aims to develop autonomous car manufacturing.
"With safety and security being his top priority," said Wang Yunpeng.
"Together, we can help car manufacturers rapidly produce safe autonomous vehicles and promote collaboratively the development of a smart networked car industry," added Yunpeng.
At this stage, Baidu invests in developing AI and deep learning. QNX Blackberry will operate a functional and network security system.
Previously, Blackberry and Baidu had entered into an agreement in 2018. At that time, the QNX operating system was an open platform to Baidu's Apollo autonomy.
Then Blackberry got its new arena by innovating QNX technology for vehicles. Today, this technology is used for the benefit of driving, digital devices, and infotainment systems up to 175 million.
"With the QNX Blackberry being the foundation, Baidu is making significant progress on the part of the Apollo platform that is building a commercial ecosystem for the innovative technology OEMs use for their next vehicle," said Dhiraj Handa, Vice President of Blackberry Technology Solutions for the channel, partner and APAC.
With this cooperation, Blackberry is expected to enter the Chinese market share. Previously, QNX technology was integrated for Xpeng vehicles, which are Tesla's competitors.