Stellantis partners with QNX?

Stellantis may be one of the lead customers of the QNX Cabin program

Further analysis of developments at Stellantis opens up some interesting leads. The first link is to a news release dated Jan-2024 about Stellantis announcing a partnership with BlackBerry QNX and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a virtual cockpit environment. At CES 2025, Blackberry rebranded to QNX and introduced QNX Cabin, suggesting Stellantis may be one of the lead customers of the QNX Cabin program. The second link is to a release dated Apr-2022 announcing the collaboration between Qualcomm and Stellantis.

QNX Cabin was demonstrated at CES 2025 running on a Qualcomm SoC, possibly the 4th generation cockpit processor, with DMS from Seeing Machines. So we can start to piece together a partnership encompassing Qualcomm/QNX/Seeing Machines, the first example of which appears to have reached production with Stellantis running DMS in the cockpit SoC.

Qualcomm has previously stated the DMS can run in an accelerator on either the Snapdragon Ride or Snapdragon Cockpit processor, and the decision is left up to the automaker. So, at long last, we appear to have some evidence of the link between Qualcomm and Seeing Machines showing up in a vehicle at start of production. This information may also reinforce the conclusion that the tier-1 for the Stellantis program is Valeo, rather than Magna International.

From the outside the pieces never perfectly fit together, but what is starting to become clearer is the central role QNX is playing in the design and development of the software-defined vehicle SDV, and the plug-and-play ecosystem being put together by Qualcomm to accelerate its adoption. Other automakers should take note.

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