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A new seat at the self-driving table
BlackBerry’s QNX division just got tapped by Momenta and XHEART as the safety foundation for a new autonomous driving platform. Translation: while everyone else is fighting over the flashy AI brain, QNX is the boring-but-essential nervous system making sure the whole thing doesn’t faceplant.
Why this matters
The platform combines:
- Momenta’s full-stack autonomous driving software
- XHEART’s X7 automotive-grade SoC
- QNX OS for Safety, built on QNX SDP 8.0
That combo is meant to be production-ready and aligned with global functional safety standards, which is the kind of phrase automakers love because it sounds a lot less scary than “please trust our robot car.”
The investor angle
For BlackBerry, this is another reminder that QNX still has a real seat in the vehicle-software race. It’s not the headline-grabbing part of the car, but it’s the part that helps the car pass the test without becoming a viral disaster.
Big picture: if autonomous driving keeps inching from demo mode to actual deployment, software layers like QNX can quietly become more valuable than they look on the surface.