Qualcomm Teams With China-Based GWM on Autonomous Driving System

Qualcomm and Great Wall Motor announced a working relationship in autonomous driving based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride platform. GWM plans to build its Coffee Intelligence system into premium production vehicles beginning in 2022. The companies’ relationship will accelerate commercialization of autonomous driving and delivery of new driving experiences, they said Wednesday. The Snapdragon Ride platform is built on scalable and modular heterogeneous multi-core CPUs, artificial intelligence and computer vision engines, and graphics processors to support multiple segments of autonomous driving, Qualcomm said. With this platform, “GWM will be able to offer comprehensive multi-segment capabilities in our future vehicles,” such as driver assistance systems and high-level autonomous driving, said Kai Zhang, GWM’s head-intelligent driving.