The Volkswagen subsidiary will be supplied with system-on-chips from the semiconductor firm’s Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio

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Qualcomm to supply system-on-chips from the Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio to CARIAD. (Credit: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.)

CARIAD, the automotive software subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, has selected Qualcomm Technologies to provide system-on-chips (SoCs) for its software platform designed to allow assisted and automated driving functions up to Level 4.

Qualcomm Technologies will supply the SoCs from its Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio. The SoCs are expected to be a major hardware component in CARIAD’s standardised and scalable compute platform.

CARIAD’s platform is planned to be used in Volkswagen Group’s vehicles from 2025 onwards.

CARIAD CEO Dirk Hilgenberg said: “The connected and automated car of the future is a high-performance computer on wheels. Behind it lies enormously complex computing power.

“With our automated driving solutions, we are striving to let customers take their hands off the steering wheel in the future. Our software and Qualcomm Technologies’ high-performance SoCs are the perfect match to bring this new automotive experience to customers around the world.”

Qualcomm Technologies claimed that by using its high-performance SoCs, Volkswagen Group can offer a variety of secure and scalable automated driving functions.

The semiconductor company said that the SoCs from the Snapdragon Ride Platform portfolio are suited optimally to the requirements of the software built by CARIAD.

Qualcomm Technologies SVP and Qualcomm Europe/MEA president Enrico Salvatori said: “We are proud to be supporting CARIAD with Snapdragon Ride Platforms to support new car assessment programme (NCAP), active safety, to Level 4, self-driving, functionality, across the Volkswagen Group vehicles launching from the middle of the decade.”

Launched in 2020, the Snapdragon Ride platform is a car-to-cloud connected advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) infrastructure.

The platform includes low-power SoC platforms made up of high performance compute and artificial intelligence (AI) engines with in-built functional safety, flexible vision solutions, and a tool set to facilitate simulation and continuous learning frameworks.

In March this year, Qualcomm Technologies inked a long-term cooperation agreement with BMW Group and Arriver Software for building automated driving technologies.