Q: Would you call the shift to become a supplier of vehicle software an innovation of ZF's traditional role? A: It's not so much new as it is accelerating. We have been dealing already with software.

Dr. Dirk Walliser, head of Corporate R&D at ZF Group and Kishor Patil, CEO at KPIT Technologies ZF Group and KPIT Technologies, a software company, have announced that they will cooperate in the ...

Automotive OEMs need more system-on-chip (SoC)-level software packages to accelerate their software-defined vehicle (SDV) programs as they face challenges due to the non-availability of a single ...

IBM has launched software to help automotive customers solve key business challenges, including the faster introduction of new products to market and more efficient communications with customers and ...

QNX Software Systems (www.qnx.com) has developed Aviage, acoustic processing middleware intended to improve the quality and reduce the cost of hands-free and voice-activated in-car systems. QNX ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. has developed middleware that can recognize voices in nine different languages, and plans to begin marketing it worldwide this spring for use in mobile and automotive ...

The line between middleware and application software is blurred, which is why this chapter introduces both together. Middleware is software that has been abstracted out of the application layer for a ...