Highlights:
- New Garmin Unified Cabin 2025 features the high-performing
Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform for premium, AI-accelerated
in-vehicle experiences.
- Development of scalable digital cockpit solution with
centralized domain controller capabilities builds upon
long-standing strategic relationship.
- Garmin Unified Cabin 2025 on display at the Garmin booth at
CES.
LAS
VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Garmin and
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today at CES 2025 announced the
expansion of their automotive technology collaboration with the new
Garmin Unified Cabin™ 2025, a next-generation digital cockpit
solution featuring scalable domain controller capabilities from a
single Garmin control module. The cutting-edge solution, powered by
Qualcomm Technologies' Snapdragon® Cockpit Elite
platform, delivers intuitive and immersive entertainment
experiences across all vehicle displays, facilitating a
software-defined vehicle architecture. This collaboration extends a
successful history that most recently resulted in the award-winning
Garmin Unified Cabin domain controller solution.
Through the technology collaboration, Garmin digital cockpit
solutions will offer next-gen hardware built on the Snapdragon
Cockpit Elite platform, with enhanced onboard generative AI enabled
by Snapdragon Cockpit Elite's dedicated Neural Processing Unit
(NPU), supporting theme customization, voice assistants, and more.
Powered by Qualcomm Technologies' highest performing CPU, Qualcomm
Oryon™, the improved Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU and the
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU for superior multimodal AI
performance, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform is designed to
bring unmatched in-vehicle experiences and on-device AI to all
tiers of software-defined vehicles.
"Garmin and Qualcomm Technologies have formed a close
relationship to deliver innovative solutions that drive both the
feature set and capabilities of next generation domain controllers.
We are proud to collaborate with Qualcomm Technologies to deliver a
first-of-its-kind automotive OEM solution and feature set with an
unparalleled level of capability, scalability and
integration," said Matt Munn,
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Garmin Automotive
OEM.
"At Qualcomm Technologies, we're thrilled to deepen our
collaboration with Garmin, combining our Snapdragon Cockpit Elite
platform with their automotive expertise to redefine in-vehicle
experiences," said Nakul Duggal, group general manager,
automotive, industrial and cloud, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "This
next-generation digital cockpit solution offers automakers
unparalleled entertainment and personalization for their vehicles,
setting a new standard for software-defined vehicle
architecture."
Garmin and Qualcomm Technologies first teamed up in 2019 to
deliver domain controllers for a major OEM to market, and in 2022
the companies collaborated on the first iteration of the Garmin
Unified Cabin based on the Snapdragon ® Cockpit
Platform, with subsequent models delivered each year since. Garmin
has since worked with Qualcomm Technologies for digital cockpit
solutions as part of a multi-year project, showcasing cutting-edge
features through the seamless integration of various peripherals
and displays to create a multi-zone, multi-user architecture within
the vehicle, complemented by software components to deliver a
comprehensive infotainment, digital cluster and entertainment
system.
The Garmin Unified Cabin digital cockpit with the integrated
Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform will be on display by invitation
only at the Garmin booth at CES 2025 in Las Vegas from January
7 through January 9 in the LVCC West Hall, Booth 3540. To
schedule a demo, email media.relations@garmin.com.
Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Adreno, Hexagon and Qualcomm Oryon are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm
Incorporated.
Qualcomm Oryon, Qualcomm Adreno, Snapdragon
and Qualcomm Hexagon are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
and/or its subsidiaries.
About Garmin
Garmin Automotive OEM utilizes
the company's long-standing expertise in user experience and
hardware design from its automotive, avionics and marine segments
to develop comprehensive infotainment and domain controller
solutions. The company's geographically diverse and highly
automated manufacturing capabilities support a broad range of
in-vehicle electronic strategies for the automotive industry
including intelligent video driving recorders and computing
modules, as well as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS)
functionality. With dedicated offices and production facilities
throughout the Americas, Europe
and Asia, Garmin Automotive OEM
provides a variety of hardware and software solutions to leading
automobile manufacturers such as BMW Group, Ford, Honda,
Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Toyota,
Geely, Kawasaki and Yamaha Motor.
For more information, email our media team, connect with us
on LinkedIn, or visit us online at garmin.com/aoem.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be
intelligently connected. Our one technology roadmap allows us to
efficiently scale the technologies that launched the mobile
revolution – including advanced connectivity, high-performance,
low-power compute, on-device intelligence and more – to the next
generation of connected smart devices across industries.
Innovations from Qualcomm and our family of Snapdragon platforms
will help enable cloud-edge convergence, transform industries,
accelerate the digital economy, and revolutionize how we experience
the world, for the greater good.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL,
and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated,
operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all
of our engineering, research and development functions,
and substantially all of our products and services
businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business.
Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patented
technologies are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Krista
Klaus
Garmin Director of Global Corporate Communications
913-397-8200
media.relations@garmin.com
Clare Conley
Media Relations
1-858-845-5959
corpcomm@qualcomm.com
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