Horizon Robotics has entered into an in-depth strategic partnership with Aptiv and Wind River to enable intelligent driving with localized software and hardware solutions

In this cooperation, Horizon Robotics will enable Aptiv and its global leader in mission-critical intelligent edge software, Wind River, to build fully integrated hardware and software solutions for vehicle manufacturers based on the Journey® series chips, including Wind River's edge-to-cloud product portfolio running on the Journey® series chips. By launching high-performance and cost-effective product technologies in the field of intelligent driving, this cooperation can meet the needs of next-generation applications including automated driving and enable the development of software-defined vehicles.

Strategic cooperation signing ceremony site

From left to right: Dr. Chen Liming, President of Horizon Robotics; Dr. Yu Kai, Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics; Zhang Yufeng, Vice President of Horizon Robotics and President of Intelligent Vehicle Business Unit; Tang Haiyi, President of Aptiv Active Safety and User Experience System Business Unit in China; Dr. Yang Xiaoming, President of Aptiv Asia Pacific; and Fu Junfeng, Senior Manager of Automotive Industry Sales at Wind River.

As a pioneer in promoting the commercial application of intelligent driving in China's passenger car sector, Horizon Robotics' self-developed Journey® series chips can cover all scenarios of intelligent driving. Horizon Robotics will support a variety of Wind River software products on the Journey® series chips, including Wind River VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), Wind River Helix™ virtualization platform, Wind River Linux, Wind River Studio, as well as container architecture and middleware. This cooperation is the first time that Aptiv has strategically cooperated with a local Chinese supplier on intelligent driving automotive-grade chips to better leverage the advantages of localized development and delivery, and empower vehicle customers for next-generation automotive solutions.

Benjamin Lyon, Aptiv’s global chief technology officer, said:

"Horizon Robotics is an industry-leading provider of high-performance intelligent driving computing solutions. The integration of Wind River software solutions and Horizon Robotics' Journey® series chips will help Aptiv build a more sustainable open platform and coordinate the development path of Aptiv's Smart Vehicle Architecture SVA™, thereby meeting the application needs of vehicle customers for software-defined vehicles."

Dr. Kai Yu, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, said:

"At present, China's automotive industry is facing a transformation and development opportunity that has not been seen in a century. Horizon is committed to open collaboration with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to jointly improve the efficiency of industrial collaboration and efficiently promote the industrialization and upgrading of intelligent driving. We are honored to be able to reach a cooperation with Aptiv, a world-leading automotive technology company, and its subsidiary Wind River. We look forward to the future strong combination, giving full play to our respective core advantages in the automotive industry chain, and providing excellent software and hardware overall solutions for vehicle companies, so as to jointly enable consumers to enjoy a safer and better way of travel."

Avijit Sinha, Chief Product Officer at Wind River, said:

“The collaboration with Horizon Robotics is an important step in our efforts to build a flexible, scalable, and open ecosystem in the automotive sector. Wind River’s deep expertise in safety-critical applications will empower automakers and Tier 1 suppliers including Aptiv. We look forward to working with Aptiv and Horizon Robotics to further advance software-defined vehicles and smart driving.”

At present, the development of the smart car industry depends on an open, innovative and collaborative industry ecosystem. In the future, Horizon Robotics will continue to be the greatest common denominator of the automotive intelligent industry, and help Aptiv, Wind River and other software and hardware ecosystem partners to better support Chinese car companies and jointly create more user value with efficient and easy-to-use computing solutions, development tools and continuously improved technical services.