BICV and BBFrom the PR:
"BlackBerry QNX's operating system is one of the world's most popular automotive real-time operating systems thanks to its high security, exceptional stability and rapid running speed," said Xu Linhao, Chairman of BICV. "As one China's leadings Tier 1s, BICV aims to empower car intelligence and continuously provide automakers with cutting-edge connectivity solutions that improve both the driving and in-car experience. We look forward to building on our shared successes, providing localized support and working with BlackBerry QNX to better serve the automotive market through the creation of safer and smarter in-vehicle technology."
BICV's advanced intelligent cockpit is built on the highly reliable QNX Neutrino RTOS and features the QNX Hypervisor for design flexibility and scalability, allowing for the consolidation of multiple systems with mixed criticality and different operating environments onto a single hardware platform. This has effectively reduced both the model's initial development expenses as well as the long-term costs of ownership, while still ensuring industry-leading safety and security.
Since 2017, BICV and BlackBerry have worked together as part of a number of co-development projects, with BICV equipping many of its products with BlackBerry's QNX technologies, including intelligent cockpits, full LCD instrumentation panels, and air conditioning controls for windscreens.
About BICV
BDStar Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd. (BICV) is a subsidiary of Beijing BDStar Navigation Co.Ltd. (stock code: 002151). The company's main business includes vehicle cockpit electronics (IVI/DA, Instrument cluster, smart e-cockpit, T-BOX, vehicle antennas, etc.), engineering services (hardware or software components development, etc.), and LOV, which intends to provide customers with a complete car intelligent network connection overall solution to help the industry to be upgraded.
The company is headquartered in Chongqing, and has R & D institutions in Chongqing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Beijing, Suqian, Munich, Silicon Valley and other places. The R & Most core members in R & D center has years of working experience in Global enterprise (tier1). With complete R&D and plant infrastructure, BICV has mature DA, IVI, TBOX, LCD Instrumentation, domain controller, V2X, smart antenna, TSP, mobile APP, cockpit products professional development and mass production capabilities. The company has passed CMMI-3 certification. Development and project management capability has reached the international advanced level and is able to undertake high-level automotive software engineering development projects. The company has two major production bases in Suqian and Chongqing, with a plant area of 32000 square meters, more than 1600 employees, and annual production capacity of 2.6 million intelligent cockpits, 13 Siemens/ Panasonic full-automatic high-speed SMT patch lines, 20 assembly production lines based on lean manufacturing and high-standard automatic production and testing equipment, which can realize the whole process intelligent production scheduling and intelligent traceability, and meet the requirements of large-scale and high-quality standard production of the main engine factory. The company's customers include Volkswagen, Skoda, Changan, Geely, GM Wuling, FAW Hongqi, Chery, BAIC, Jiangling and other domestic and foreign mainstream automotive companies. BICV will closely focuses on customer needs and continuously provides customers with satisfactory automotive intelligent networking solutions and is committed to becoming a leading company for intelligent networking product, technology and service provider.