XHEART and Momenta (HKEX: 6880.HK) have selected the QNX® safety-certified operating system from QNX, a division of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB),as the foundational operating system for their physical AI autonomous driving platform.
The production-ready solution combines XHEART's automotive-grade X7 system-on-chip (SoC), Momenta's full-stack autonomous driving solution and the QNX safety-certified operating system built on QNX® SDP 8.0. The three-company platform is intended to help automakers worldwide deploy intelligent driving technologies while meeting global functional safety standards.
The solution has achieved TÜV Rheinland ISO 26262 ASIL D functional safety certification. It provides an important functional safety foundation for OEMs developing vehicles for highly regulated markets, including those subject to European UN Regulation No. 171 on Driver Control Assistance Systems (DCAS).
XHEART CEO Zonglin Li said: “The next generation of autonomous driving depends on the computing power of AI-native chips. Our X7 SoC, combined with a certified QNX operating system and Momenta's algorithms, offers automakers a high-performance, functionally safe and scalable solution.”
Momenta Senior Vice President Huan Sun said: “Safety must be the foundation for scaling physical AI globally. Our production-ready solution with XHEART and QNX is built to leading safety standards and will help automakers expand into international markets with confidence.”
QNX Senior Vice President, Global Products and Strategy Grant Courville said: “Momenta and XHEART are helping advance the next generation of physical AI. QNX is proud that its safety-certified operating system underpins this future. Our collaboration further strengthens QNX's role as a trusted foundational software provider for autonomous driving systems worldwide.”
About XHEART
XHEART develops core computing technology for the era of large models. Its purpose-built chips provide a hardware foundation for high-performance intelligence at scale and serve as a core engine for physical AI applications, including autonomous driving and robotics.
About Momenta
Momenta is a physical AI company seeking to improve lives through breakthrough AI. Moving from seeing the world to anticipating it, Momenta builds on world models and insights from its “data flywheel.” It pursues two parallel businesses: mass-production vehicle programs and scalable autonomous services. Momenta works closely with leading automakers and mobility platforms worldwide. Alongside mass-production deployment, it is expanding across autonomous delivery, freight and robotaxi markets and platforms.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent software and services to enterprises and governments. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, its high-performance foundational software helps leading automakers and industrial companies develop transformative applications, create new revenue streams and introduce new business models while maintaining functional safety, cybersecurity and reliability. Drawing on its long experience in secure communications, BlackBerry offers a broad, highly secure and widely certified portfolio spanning mobile device protection, mission-critical communications and emergency incident management to help organizations build operational resilience.
About QNX
QNX, a division of BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB), provides a trusted foundation for software-defined and physical AI systems so they can operate safely, reliably and predictably in the real world. For nearly five decades, QNX technology has supported safety-critical applications where failure is not an option. QNX offers operating systems, virtualization, middleware, solutions and development tools for functional safety and cybersecurity, supported by embedded software specialists. Its technologies run in hundreds of millions of vehicles worldwide and are used in industrial controls, robotics, medical devices, commercial transportation, rail, aerospace and defense. QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Learn more at qnx.software。