Qualcomm and Wayve partner on production ADAS/AD system

Qualcomm Technologies and Wayve have announced a technical collaboration to deliver a pre-integrated advanced driver assistance and automated driving (ADAS/AD) system for automakers worldwide. The partnership brings Wayve’s AI Driver software together with Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Ride platform — combining its system-on-chips (SoCs) and Active Safety software — to support deployments from hands-off driving assistance to eyes-off automated driving.

The pre-integrated system is designed to reduce development complexity by uniting the SoC, active safety systems and AI driving intelligence in a single framework, enabling automakers to deploy advanced ADAS features while retaining flexibility to customise and scale across vehicle models, tiers and regions. The two companies also intend to explore applying Snapdragon Ride SoCs in future Level 4 robotaxi applications.

Wayve AI Driver learns driving behaviour from large-scale real-world data, supporting performance across road types and geographies. Snapdragon Ride’s architecture includes redundancy, real-time monitoring and secure system isolation within a safety-certified design that scales from premium to mainstream vehicle platforms.

In a statement, Anshuman Saxena, Vice President and General Manager, ADAS and Robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, said: “Together with Wayve, we’re empowering automakers with more choice for how advanced driving systems are developed, deployed, and scaled, while also helping them reduce development cycles, effort and risk.”

Alex Kendall, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wayve, added: “By combining our embodied AI driving intelligence with Qualcomm Technologies’ compute performance, platform maturity and global scale, we are expanding choice and delivering immediate value to automakers across ADAS and automated driving systems.”

Source: Qualcomm