QNX Embedded in Over 275 Million Vehicles as Software-Defined Era Advances

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K and US. The research was conducted by OnePoll in July and August 2026. The headline finding is that automotive developers are still spending an enormous amount of time building and integrating the underlying software infrastructure rather than developing features that drivers actually experience. According to the survey, 35 percent of development effort is being spent on foundational integration tasks, while only 9

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dation on which manufacturers and developers can build their own applications. Three-quarters of developers surveyed said the lack of a common, reusable software foundation is slowing SDV development. Some 76 percent said automakers should concentrate more resources on application-layer innovation rather than foundational software infrastructure. Only 22 percent said their organizations extensively reuse the same fou

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lems again and again, that is engineering effort that isn’t being spent differentiating the vehicle. The opportunity is to provide a trusted foundation so developers can spend more of their time creating the things that actually make one vehicle different from another.” Security is another increasingly important consideration. Some 83 percent of the developers surveyed believe SDVs will become a major target for cybe

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