Qualcomm and Wayve team up to accelerate self-driving car rollout
Qualcomm and U.K.-based Wayve have announced a partnership to create a new self-driving platform for cars.
By combining Wayve's AI Driver software with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride chips, they aim to make it easier for automakers to add advanced features, from hands-off driving (Level 2+) up to high automation (Level 4), enabling eyes-off driving in defined conditions.
Wayve's AI driver and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride platform explained
Wayve's AI Driver can understand the road using cameras and sensors: no need for complicated maps or endless re-tuning.
Automakers can license this software and customize it for their own vehicles.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride platform provides high-performance, energy-efficient processing and active safety software to support advanced driver-assistance and automated driving features.
Wayve's self-driving platform is backed by major investors
Wayve closed a $1.2 billion Series D and has $1.5 billion of capital secured to support its commercial rollout from big names like Uber, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Stellantis—pushing its value to $8.6 billion.
Uber is an investor; no testing timeline was announced.
No deployment date was provided for regular drivers.