Valeo and BlackBerry subsidiary QNX signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the ninth China International Import Expo, integrating the QNX OS for Safety into Valeo’s next-generation intelligent forward camera platform.
The platform is already production-ready. It has secured programme nominations with several carmakers operating in China and is expected to enter series production within 2026.
What the integration changes
The combined platform pairs QNX’s safety-certified operating system with Valeo’s hardware and full software stack for advanced driver assistance, covering detection of vehicles, pedestrians, lane markings and traffic signs.
Running QNX OS for Safety on the system-on-chip allows high-performance AI processing while preserving determinism, functional safety and real-time reliability. Automakers can configure the platform per model programme, which lowers integration complexity and cost and compresses the time from design to volume production.
Dong Yuanwen, chief representative of QNX Greater China, said carmakers need assistance platforms that balance safety, performance and cost effectiveness, and that the collaboration is aimed at the next generation of driver assistance functions.
Zhou Song, president of Valeo China, noted that automakers take different paths on driver assistance and that the platform can be configured to match each programme’s requirements.
A long relationship, extended
QNX technology already sits inside a number of Valeo solutions supporting vehicle programmes worldwide. Canadian minister of international trade Maninder Sidhu, speaking at the Canada pavilion where the agreement was signed, said QNX software is now used in more than 275 million vehicles globally.
The announcement is a small procedural step inside a much larger reorganisation of the Chinese driver assistance supply chain. Local suppliers have taken the majority of volume in several sensor categories, while international tier one suppliers hold position through certified software and safety engineering rather than hardware alone.
For European suppliers, the Chinese market has become the place where cost pressure arrives first and where a certified, configurable platform is the difference between winning a single flagship programme and winning a dozen mainstream ones.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original Gasgoo report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. The full original (in Chinese) is at https://auto.gasgoo.com/news/202611/6I70477206C103.shtml.