Eclipse SDV

Eclipse SDV is a working group of the Eclipse Foundation, launched in 2022, that develops open-source software building blocks for the software-defined vehicle. Members include major OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, chipmakers and cloud providers; contributors range from Bosch and Continental subsidiaries to Microsoft and automotive startups.

The group hosts dozens of projects across the stack: in-vehicle runtimes and middleware, vehicle abstraction layers (several building on COVESA VSS), developer tooling, simulation, and fleet connectivity. The premise is that large parts of the vehicle software stack are non-differentiating — every OEM needs them, none wins customers with them — so sharing the engineering cost in open source frees investment for the layers that do differentiate.

For the sector, Eclipse SDV functions as a signal of where the commodity line sits: components that land there are ones the industry has collectively decided not to compete on, which reshapes supplier business models built on selling exactly those components.