Momenta, XHEART and QNX built a driving platform aimed at Europe's R171 rules

Momenta announced a three-way collaboration with the chip company XHEART and QNX, a business unit of BlackBerry, to build what it called a physical-AI autonomous driving platform on QNX’s safety operating system.

The company described the result as a production-grade solution combining its own full-stack autonomous driving software, XHEART’s X7 automotive-grade system-on-chip, and the QNX OS for Safety built on QNX SDP 8.0. Momenta said the solution has passed TÜV Rheinland certification to ISO 26262 ASIL D, the standard’s highest functional safety integrity level.

The stated target is export. Momenta framed the platform as suited to vehicles meeting regulatory requirements such as Europe’s UN R171 on driver control assistance systems — the same regulation the British government proposed on August 18 to make a condition of GB type approval. Grant Courville, QNX’s senior vice president for global product and strategy, and Momenta senior vice president Sun Huan were named alongside XHEART chief executive Li Zonglin, who said the X7 chip was being combined with a certified QNX operating system and Momenta’s algorithm capability.

The announcement is thin on dates. Momenta described the agreement itself only as recent, and did not say when the ASIL D certificate covering the combined platform was issued. An English-language version circulated on the wires on August 18; Momenta’s own English newsroom had not carried the item, leaving the Chinese page as the primary record.