BlackBerry Expands Partnership with Baidu to Power Next Generation Autonomous Driving Technology
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WATERLOO, ON and BEIJING, Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Baidu, whose high-definition maps will run on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS) and will be mass-produced in the forthcoming GAC New Energy Aion models from the EV arm of GAC Group (Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd.).
The milestones build on the company s January 2018 agreement to make BlackBerry QNX s industry-leading ISO 26262 ASIL D certified operating system (OS) the foundation for Baidu s Apollo autonomous driving open platform.
BlackBerry Rises Again After Expanded Baidu Partnership
BlackBerry shares rise sharply again, this time getting a boost from an expanded partnership with Baidu for autonomous driving technology.
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BlackBerry (
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Shares of the Canadian software company once known for its QWERTY keyboard-enabled mobile phones and even before that, pagers, were up 17.3% at $21.15 in premarket trading after revealing the expanded deal with Baidu, which broadens the company s use of BlackBerry’s operating system in its Apollo autonomous driving open platform.
BlackBerry has expanded its strategic partnership with China-based Baidu to power next-generation autonomous and connected cars.With world-leading levels of data granularity, Baidu s high-definition maps provide a critical component for global .
Blackberry and Baidu Extend Partnership to Work on Autonomous Driving
Jan 26 2021 · 13:36 UTC | Updated
Jan 26 2021 · 13:38 by John K. Kumi · 3 min read
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The partnership between Baidu and Blackberry will help car manufacturers to effectively and efficiently produce safe autonomous vehicles.
Blackberry Limited (NYSE: BB) has seen its 2018 partnership deal with Chinese search engine heavyweight Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU) expanded in a bid to provide enough tools for automakers to produce next-generation connected and autonomous vehicles in China.
The expansion of the deal will see the high definition map of Baidu launched on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS) of Blackberry. This is a real-time microkernel operating system that ensures that flexibility and deterministic performance are provided as a measure to make solutions available to the scarce resources of the embedded system.