Byton Licenses BlackBerry QNX OS, Hypervisor Software for Production Vehicles

Smart vehicle company Byton licensed BlackBerry's QNX SDP 7.0 real-time operating system and Hypervisor 2.0 software for its first series of production vehicles, said the companies Thursday. Byton chose BlackBerry's technology for its ability to partition and isolate safety-critical systems from non-safety critical systems, said the car company. Byton plans to launch its M-Byte Level 3 and sports utility vehicle in China next year, followed by the U.S. and Europe in 2020, it said last week at CES Asia in Shanghai (see 1806150004 or 1806140002). BlackBerry's QNX software is embedded in more than 120 million cars, it said.