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Posts tagged with 'in-vehicle infotainment'

GENIVI development strategy requires competitors to cooperate

Posted Nov 10, 2011, by John Day

The increasing complexity of cars has taught automakers the value of cooperating with competitors on technology that customers won’t see and don’t care about but would be prohibitively expensive for a single automaker to develop in-house. Automakers and suppliers formed the GENIVI Alliance, for example, to create an open source (Linux-based) development platform for in-vehicle infotainment, facilitating … Read More

Tags: Linux, Jaguar Land Rover, Magneti Marelli, XS Embedded, ARM, PSA Peugeot Citroën, QNX, Renault, Android, Visteon, Mentor Graphics, in-vehicle infotainment, Microltron, intel, Microsoft, Delphi, MontaVista Software, Genivi Alliance

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over

Posted Aug 17, 2010, by John Day

The GENIVI Alliance, which is working toward a scalable software architecture for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), recently released an IVI software architecture report based on interviews with automakers, tier one firms, semiconductor suppliers, and service providers, including Alliance member and non-member companies. Relevant IVI architecture suppliers, according to the report, include Microsoft, … Read More

Tags: Microltron, MeeGo, Microsoft, Genivi Alliance, Strategy Analytics, Wind River, in-vehicle infotainment, Android, Moblin, Linux, Maemo OS, QNX, Roger Lanctot, IVI

Working together for the common good

Posted Mar 25, 2010, by John Day

It’s nice to see that some groups can work together for the common good. I’m thinking of the companies participating in the GENIVI Alliance. BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon, and Wind River formed the Alliance a year ago to create an open source in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) reference platform. The initial version of the platform was released just nine … Read More

Tags: Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Delphi, ARM, Visteon, Graham Smethurst, Will Tu, in-vehicle infotainment, General Motors, Wind River, Genivi Alliance