BlackBerry Limited and Jaguar Land Rover have entered into a multi-year agreement to collaborate and develop automotive technology.
BlackBerry Limited and Jaguar Land Rover have entered into a multi-year agreement to collaborate and develop automotive technology. As part of the agreement, BlackBerry will license its QNX and Certicom technology to Jaguar Land Rover, as well as assign a team of engineers to support in the development of new Electronic Control Unit (ECU) modules. The first ECU project will be a next-generation infotainment system.
“Working with BlackBerry will enable us to develop the safe and secure next-generation connected car our customers want,” said Dave Nesbitt, Vehicle Engineering Director at Jaguar Land Rover. “Together with BlackBerry engineers, we will be able to access the most dynamic and up-to-date software to ensure the highest security required for our connected vehicles.”
BlackBerry currently provides OEMs around the world with technology to protect and mitigate hardware, software, applications and end-to-end systems from cyberattacks. BlackBerry’s has clients like Baidu, Delphi, Denso, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Visteon among others.
According to reports, though car software is still a relatively small part of BlackBerry’s business, it’s becoming an important growth area. After jettisoning the smartphone unit due to shrinking sales, Chen has worked to shift the Waterloo, Ontario-based company’s focus onto secure software for a range of different businesses, as well as taking other tech companies to court for allegedly using BlackBerry’s old wireless patents.
Courtesy of tech observer