What exactly should the cars of the future look like? For this question we have heard many kinds of answers, but are inseparable from digital, intelligent, as a leader in the field of chips and communications, Qualcomm also came up with its own thinking about the future of the car, and launched their product "Snapdragon digital chassis".
Of course, this chassis is not the chassis, this product is essentially Qualcomm's collection of all electronic solutions for the car, including chips and automatic driving, instrument integration, car machine, software, etc., they can exist at the same time or use alone, is an important chip for Qualcomm to enter the automotive industry.
As Nakul Duggal, senior vice president and general manager of automotive business at Qualcomm Technologies, said, "Qualcomm Technologies understands that automakers need unique and complete networking solutions to meet evolving needs and empower the cars of the twenty-first century. By expanding our in-car connectivity offerings, we are providing a transformative and scalable suite of solutions for Snapdragon digital chassis that we believe the automotive industry will leverage to create an unmatched next-generation driving experience that meets customer expectations." ”
In Barcelona on February 28, Qualcomm brought a new enhanced solution for its own "digital chassis". In order to further enhance the Snapdragon digital chassis connected car platform, Qualcomm Technologies has introduced a new "connection-as-a-service" feature for snapdragon vehicles for cloud services, supporting quickly available connectivity, integrated analytics and a developer environment for the cloud and terminals through new technical cooperation, providing new technical features, content and services for the global market.
Qualcomm specifically mentioned its Snapdragon Snapdragon vehicle cloud platform, which brings new opportunities for the automotive ecosystem and related developers to support the development and delivery of digital services that can generate revenue, so that everyone can rely on the Snapdragon digital chassis ecosystem to generate more valuable content. At the same time, the new Wi-Fi 6E automotive chipset was launched, bringing higher bandwidth to applications and providing higher speeds to support the future content and data of the car.
In addition, Qualcomm Technologies also highlighted the integrated application framework created for the development of in-vehicle networking and cloud-connected applications and services - Snapdragon In-vehicle Networking Application Framework.
This feature supports global connectivity through Snapdragon's in-vehicle connected system-on-chip (SoC) modules and API-enabled developer environments to create enhanced applications/services based on the terminal side and cloud. Supported by connected vehicle telemetry data and advanced data analysis, tools in the developer environment help automakers address the complexities of creating connected services on in-vehicle hardware to support connectivity-as-a-service and new technical features and digital services for global markets.
In order to simplify the application, Qualcomm also launched the Snapdragon Vehicle Connected Application Framework of the Snapdragon AutoMotive Intelligent Connection Platform. This set of open source and expanded development tools allows developers to easily seamlessly connect with Snapdragon's cloud services and use the in-vehicle connectivity capabilities of the snapdragon digital chassis's full platform. Through the Snapdragon In-Vehicle Connected Application Framework, developers can use common APIs in a unified development environment, reducing the cost and complexity of integrating technical features such as 5G, location services, memory, and security into cloud applications and services.
With a new application framework coming out in early 2022, Qualcomm hopes that future automotive developers will be able to focus on their core expertise when creating applications that use in-vehicle connectivity, bringing a safer and richer immersive experience to today's cars.
Qualcomm's layout of the future automotive industry is ambitious, it hopes to make its automobile ecology more abundant and perfect through the addition of more developers and folk gods, with the help of force, the accumulation of less is the biggest reliance point of Qualcomm digital chassis, as long as the platform and access mechanism, the future Qualcomm may bring us a set of the richest and most comprehensive automotive software ecology on the market.