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Vehicles whose functions and features are defined, updated, and extended mainly through software rather than fixed hardware changes.
LG Electronics will supply a single cockpit system running both the instrument cluster and infotainment in Renault's Trafic E-Tech Electric van from next year. Terms were not disclosed, so it is unclear whether LG earns from later software updates.
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Applied Intuition will put its Vehicle OS into Nissan's next-generation software platform, six years after the two companies began working together on simulation. No production model or launch date is attached, so Nissan's commitment so far covers development work only.
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NVIDIA is licensing the Fusion chiplet, its C2C CPU attach and NVHBM to MediaTek and buying $3.5 billion of its convertible bonds, so the quickest route to a custom accelerator now ends inside an NVIDIA rack.
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Last week's Silverado and Sierra software reveal got read as GM restoring phone mirroring. The eleven electric nameplates that lost projection in 2023 are still Google built-in only, and the stack underneath them is why.
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The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act cleared the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where 60 senators have already co-sponsored a version. Four automakers would have to refit hardware they took out.
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Hyundai has released the first road footage of Atria AI, the self-driving platform it is building in-house, driving hands-off in Seoul traffic. Cars carrying it are due in mass production in the second half of 2029.
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Hyundai Motor Group told a media day in Seongnam that Level 2+ reaches mass production in the first half of 2028, and that it will pass competitors' accumulated driving data within five years of that start. About 40 cars collect its data now.
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The assistant runs off-the-shelf language models on Google Cloud against VIN-linked accounts. The engineering that decides whether it works is retrieval, and the in-car version is a year out.
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Rivian builds hardware headroom for about seven to 10 years of upgrades. The average US vehicle is 12.8 years old, and no one has priced the gap between those two numbers.
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Rivian builds in seven to 10 years of software headroom. The average American car is 12.8 years old. Tesla's HW3 retrofit and a Gen 1 Rivian class action show who pays the difference.
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