How a vehicle's electrical and electronic systems are laid out, and what changes when that layout does. Coverage follows the move away from dozens of distributed control units toward domain controllers, zonal controllers and central compute — and the wiring, networking and power distribution that have to move with them.
In the wiki: E/E architecture · Zonal architecture · Central compute / HPC · Domain controller
Elektrobit said its integration-as-code approach on the EB tresos toolchain turns AUTOSAR configuration into reusable, version-controlled workflows that run inside continuous integration pipelines, replacing manual work in a graphical tool.
The first mass-production units of the jointly developed T9 autonomous heavy truck came off the line at GAC Lingcheng's Conghua plant six weeks after its Hannover premiere, according to a report relaying the manufacturer's own channel.
The Chinese brake supplier asked to redirect the unspent remainder of a 2025 convertible bond's castings project into two new lines, one of them for 400,000 by-wire braking systems a year, after demand for aluminum castings slowed.
BYD's third quarterly report records RMB 36.28 billion of research and development expenses for the first nine months of 2026 against RMB 43.75 billion a year earlier, and the report gives no reason for the fall.
At its first Tech Day in Hefei, Volkswagen Group China unveiled VEGA, an in-house stack joining vehicle platforms, electronic architecture and driver assistance, and said its own AI toolchain had cut software feature testing from up to three days to two or three hours.
The Ningbo supplier's third-quarter report put nine-month new design wins at about RMB 61.5 billion in forecast lifetime value, and said price rises in memory chips and other electronic components added about RMB 370 million to raw-material cost against budget.
A release on an internal application hackathon disclosed the platforms the supplier builds vehicle software on: InfoLINK, an infotainment development platform it wrote for Android Automotive OS, IDELINK, a browser-based cloud development environment, and an on-device AI software development kit that runs without an external server.
NXP reported third-quarter automotive revenue of $2.07 billion, up 13 percent year-on-year, in its first results statement since Volkswagen named the company's S32K5 the common microcontroller for its zonal architecture.
The vendor's second annual survey of 1,100 embedded automotive software developers found a third of their effort goes to integration work beneath the vehicle application layer, and that only 22 percent of their organizations extensively reuse a foundational software platform across vehicle programs.
The group named NXP a strategic technology partner and said the S32K5 family is intended to serve as a building block of the zonal architecture developed by its joint venture with Rivian, with the first vehicle planned for 2027.
The carmaker gave its completed technology foundation as the reason it will continue reducing research and development spending, as it set out another SEK 5 billion of cuts and about 2,500 fewer jobs.
The Israeli developer of x-by-wire vehicle platforms disclosed an equity commitment letter and a court timetable under Israeli insolvency law, under which existing shareholders would be wiped out and the company would leave the public market.
Beijing Hirain said its HIRAIN OS.EAS basic software platform now supports Immorta's IM94-series automotive microcontrollers, optimized to meet ASIL B functional safety and hardware security module requirements.
UD Trucks told Japan's transport ministry that compatibility between a driver's-seat switch panel and the cab input/output module had not been verified sufficiently, and that it would reflash the module on every affected vehicle.
Visteon's third-quarter results named a high-performance compute launch in China and a cockpit domain controller for the BMW i3 among 21 product launches, alongside $77 million of charges across two warranty matters.
Expanding its work with NVIDIA, Aptiv framed the result as a thermal and cost claim rather than a capability one: supporting advanced AI models while relying exclusively on air cooling, which it called an industry first for Thor-based computing platforms.
Shenzhen filings recorded the transfer of 37.16 percent of Hangsheng Electronics to Fibocom for 1.428 billion yuan, and said concerted-action agreements with ten of the target's shareholders bring the module maker's controlled stake to 51.40 percent.
At its GM Forward event in New York, General Motors described a propulsion-agnostic electrical architecture that consolidates perception, propulsion, active safety and chassis control onto one central compute unit, debuting on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ before moving into its highest-volume trucks and SUVs.
Daimler Buses said a new electronic architecture reaching Mercedes-Benz and Setra coaches from 2027 will carry remote software updates on selected control units, with the fleet operator deciding when and on which vehicles each update installs.
Google Cloud and the Swedish virtualization house RemotiveLabs said an entire vehicle's electronic architecture, not just its cockpit, can be stood up as code on Arm-based cloud instances and integration-tested before hardware exists.
Li Auto told the Hong Kong exchange it had agreed subscriptions totaling 1.625 billion yuan into Shanghai Mahe Xin Technology at a pre-money valuation of 15 billion yuan, nine weeks after incorporating a company that still holds no assets.
Mitsubishi Electric signed a share transfer agreement handing 50 percent of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility to a Hon Hai investment subsidiary, and both parties named electric powertrains, software and vehicle control as the capabilities the joint operation is meant to combine.
SAIC Motor said the car's Doubao cockpit assistant, built with ByteDance's Volcano Engine, schedules vehicle hardware through more than 2,000 vehicle-wide service-oriented architecture interfaces.
The industrial brand of Chinese module maker Quectel released a white paper at the Shanghai industry fair setting out a three-stage route to automated production test of smart-cockpit and ADAS domain controllers.
Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle said five years of development defined the new platform's hardware and control architecture from the start rather than adapting a diesel platform.
The two companies demonstrated hands-free supervised driving in two unrelated vehicle platforms, and said each integration reached public roads in under four weeks.
SAIC's listed supplier had board approval to bid at the Shanghai exchange for a further 10.96 percent of Lianchuang Automotive Electronics, which makes its intelligent steering, braking and suspension controllers.
China's largest commercial-vehicle maker signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Zhuoyu Technology, backed by FAW Group, covering heavy-truck navigation assist, driverless logistics vans and a market-access pilot for Level 3 and Level 4 vehicles.
The supplier said two international carmakers, one in the Americas and one in Europe, ordered its first 3-in-1 high-voltage battery management system and a 48-volt PowerPack, with a combined volume in the mid-three-digit million-euro range.
LG Electronics disclosed six in-cabin systems for the Genesis GV90, among them a central communication unit that carries the car's remote-control and update path and has been certified to the highest automotive functional-safety level.
LG Electronics said it combined the instrument cluster and infotainment system into one cockpit-domain controller for the New Trafic E-Tech Electric, which Renault built on its first mass-production software-defined vehicle architecture.
The option removes the mechanical link between steering wheel and front wheels on a series production car, and Mercedes-Benz described independent signal paths and a brake-based fallback as the safety case.
Applied Intuition announced two separate agreements on the same day, supplying its Vehicle OS software to both Japanese carmakers for their next-generation in-vehicle software platforms.
The Shanghai cockpit software supplier told the Hong Kong exchange the acquisition completed on October 2, and tied it to vehicle architectures moving toward domain-centralized and central computing.
Valeo said it would act as lead system integrator for Nissan's next-generation ProPILOT and would integrate Wayve's AI Driver as the driving intelligence layer on its own sensors, domain controller and software.
The two companies said they had begun co-creating a common software foundation for door, sensor and climate ECUs, combining Vector's MICROSAR IO with SCSK's QINeS-Lite and targeting a 50 to 80 percent cut in development effort.
At its Capital Market Day the group said the zonal electrical and electronics infrastructure introduced with the Neue Klasse would be used across all vehicle segments, and dated navigation-guided assisted driving in Germany to next year.
Two single-pair Ethernet transceivers and an integrated endpoint family went into limited sampling, aimed at putting sensors and actuators directly on a shared bus.
An approval draft out for public comment would require nineteen vehicle functions, including the control that activates combined driving assistance, to exist as physical controls wired independently of the centre display.
AUMOVIO said a notified body had certified its VDO Link telematics device as an EETS-compliant solution, in what it described as the first European confirmation that a distributed on-board architecture can meet the requirements.
A revised restructuring report filed to the Shenzhen exchange values the deal at 1.43 billion yuan for 37.16 percent of Hangsheng Electronics, with control coming from a concert-party agreement rather than from the stake itself.
A draft recommended national standard sets out what an in-vehicle intrusion detection system has to catch across the operating system, the external interfaces, the CAN and Ethernet buses and the off-vehicle links, and requires security logs to be kept for at least six months.
Dongfeng launched the Voyah Dream 9 with what it calls a full-domain L3-grade architecture on every trim, carrying Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 driving system and the HarmonySpace 6 cockpit rather than offering them as options.
A securities filing disclosed a royalty-bearing license letting onsemi build Valens' automotive sensor-link technology directly into a next-generation image sensor, on terms the accompanying press release did not describe.
The software platform company founded by Daimler Truck and Volvo Group selected the jointly developed Alloy Kore foundation, and BlackBerry's securities filing put a number on the win that the companies' own press release did not carry.
The company described release 2026.31 as the largest software change in the R1's history, and said it reaches every R1 on the road.
The supplier said a major Chinese carmaker had placed a series order for a brake system that runs electronically from the pedal through to its fallback level.
The truck group said it plans to incorporate Red Hat's automotive Linux into TRATON ONE OS while keeping architecture, safety and regulatory responsibility itself.
The two companies demonstrated streaming graphics and video from a vehicle's central computer straight to displays over ASA Motion Link, an open alternative to the proprietary links that normally carry it.
The group's supervisory board approved a plan that harmonizes platforms, electronic architectures, driver assistance and software into one set for the Western hemisphere and one for the Eastern.
The supplier's IAA Transportation portfolio put cockpit and vehicle integration platforms, over-the-air-capable computers and an ETAS diagnostic stack built on ASAM SOVD at the center of its commercial-vehicle software case.
The steering supplier's interim report disclosed two steer-by-wire program launches, one in China that it says is the world's first full system launch certified to the highest automotive safety integrity level.
The two companies widened a long-running collaboration to cover AI infrastructure, PC silicon and automotive, with NVIDIA buying MediaTek convertible bonds.
The two carmakers will share the high-performance and zone controllers of their next-generation vehicles, along with the operating system, middleware and vehicle control software running on them.
The carmaker's interim report recorded a 6.5 percent decline in research spending, alongside a described architecture change that consolidates cockpit, driving and electric-drive computing.
The automotive silicon vendor reported first-half revenue of 458.5 million yuan and gross margin of 49.5 percent, while spending nearly twice its revenue on research and development.
China's securities regulator registered Changan's share placement on Monday, and the prospectus filed the same day itemized a digital-intelligence platform project whose largest cost line is rented computing capacity and labeled driving data.
Keboda disclosed zonal control unit design wins at two Chinese electric-vehicle makers and domain controllers built across several chip platforms, and separately approved 100 million euros of capital for its German and Czech subsidiaries.
Bethel, Tuopu and Huayu each reported brake- or steer-by-wire systems reaching mass production in interim results disclosed on August 28, in a shift Bethel attributed to two national standards that took effect this year.
BMW Group said every new active safety, automated driving and parking function arriving with the Neue Klasse runs on one water-cooled computer carrying roughly 20 times the processing power of the outgoing system.
Waymo set out in its own words the ten decisions behind the Waymo Driver, and used them to reject both camera-only sensing and pure end-to-end neural driving.
The Ningbo supplier's interim report records wins with European, Japanese and Korean carmakers for assisted driving, cockpit and automated-driving data recorder systems, while revenue fell 7.4 percent.
A US federal advisory said a stack overflow in Bendix's EC80 commercial-vehicle brake controller can be used to run code and inject CAN traffic, and named replacement firmware for all eleven affected part numbers.
Xiaomi was reported to have presented Xring D100, its first in-house smart-driving processor, at a chip briefing on August 24, with commercial use set for 2027.
NHTSA upgraded a two-year-old Cadillac Lyriq investigation into an engineering analysis covering an estimated 1.16 million General Motors vehicles built with the eBoost brake system, plus two Honda-badged models GM builds under joint venture.
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
Chinese outlets reported that GAC Aion showed a model built on what it calls a chip-level integrated drive-and-control architecture, with driving software it links to WeRide's automated driving stack.
Foryou's controlling shareholder signed an agreement transferring 28.30 percent of the company to Sichuan Jiuzhou, moving the head-up display supplier under a municipal state asset commission.
Hyundai Motor Group's Android Automotive-based cockpit platform reached a production flagship, alongside a cloud-side battery management system that flags anomalies to the driver.
The two signed a memorandum of understanding on battery management systems and integrated power electronics for European carmakers, with Schaeffler owning software, functional safety and validation.
The consortium published source code, code generators and a runnable demo of the Adaptive Platform, extending its work from written specifications to software that runs.
The developer of the open-source Autoware stack said it is collaborating with Renesas to build an open computing platform spanning Level 2+ assistance through Level 4 automated driving.
The combustion sedan and estate run MB.OS as their central software platform, extending the operating system across the whole model family after the electric C-Class launched on it in April.
Horizon Robotics said its partner Pateo had been named platform supplier at an unnamed leading Chinese new energy automaker, in what it called the industry's first high-end AI cockpit award using a fully domestic cabin-drive-integrated chip.
onsemi told investors the Federal Trade Commission had granted early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, leaving stockholder approval and other clearances still outstanding before the deal can close.
CARIAD said HS8, developed with Horizon Robotics, was the Volkswagen Group's first in-house full-scenario Level 2++ driver assistance system for China, and is planned for seven new energy models this year.
The supplier said its EVO platform consolidates processing that commercial vehicles have spread across many individual control units, using Renesas silicon and a Green Hills software architecture that keeps safety-critical functions separated.
The chipmaker put its 7-nanometer automotive AI accelerator into mass production and began volume supply, pitching it as a card that adds on-vehicle model compute to cars already sold.
The carmaker said the first major upgrade of its second-generation vision-language-action model would arrive as version 6.3.0, merging the driving and cockpit models and pushing part of its robotaxi behavior down into production cars.
Britain's CAM Pathfinder awards went to fail-operational braking, photorealistic simulation and a bus service moving from Level 3 to Level 4.
Avatr's product page presents the five-seat sport utility vehicle as among the first equipped with Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 on the WEWA 2.0 architecture, including a cruise mode the company said works with no destination set.
The conference program scheduled a Car Hacking Village talk for August 8 whose abstract described reaching a production vehicle's internal network through a rogue DHCP server on its OBD Ethernet port.
The Hong Kong-listed chip designer's first interim results announcement showed smart-vehicle revenue up 252.1 percent and 25 carmaker brands signed, alongside a loss for the period widening to RMB 688.0 million.
Chinese outlets reported that Huawei's HIMA alliance launched the Maextro V800 and V680 on August 5, with a fourfold-redundant driving computer on the larger car, a day after China's Level 3 safety standard was published.
The chipmaker's third-quarter results, published August 5, put its Automotive segment at €1,932 million and attributed the increase to parts sold into software-defined vehicles.
The chipmaker's second-quarter results, published August 3, listed Rivian's R2 platform as a zonal-architecture and on-board-charging design win alongside year-over-year automotive growth.
The chip venture ECARX co-founded with Arm China raised the round as it moves from cockpit processors into single chips that run infotainment and driving workloads together.
FAW-Volkswagen began taking blind pre-orders for the ID. AURA T6, a battery-electric SUV on the electronic architecture developed with XPeng, according to CarNewsChina.
The Sky Nomad range-extended SUVs run Xiaomi's assisted driving on a 700-TOPS NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor chip rather than in-house silicon, according to Chinese media reports.
Continental's former automotive unit extends MK C2 integrated brake deliveries to the mid-2030s and settles past warranty disputes with a €350 million payment.
BMW will build its next-generation digital cockpit and automated-driving systems on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platforms under a decade-spanning agreement.
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
The Coconut+ 3.1.0 update optimizes navigation and parking assist on 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims, whose NX9031-and-NWM stack outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
XPeng debuted the L03 simultaneously in China and Munich, built around the VLA 2.0 foundation model and headed for 65 markets.
The expanded alliance adds a MISRA-compliant AI coding assistant for vehicle software alongside Toyota's continued use of DriveOS and DRIVE AGX.