Microsoft Joins forces with Bosch to create new automotive software platform

Microsoft Joins forces with Bosch to create new automotive software platform

www.systembaba.com (Z Shah) - Mar 22, 2021

Bosch will paintings with Microsoft on a software program platform for motors, it stated on Thursday, as it strives to get a foot within the door to the fast-developing market for electromobility and automated driving technology.

Through the usage of cloud generation, the software program platform will make certain that vehicles' control units and computer systems can get software program at some stage in their existence time, the German vehicle dealer said.

The generation is based on Microsoft Azure and includes software program modules from Bosch, it said, including that they plan to use the software platform in vehicle prototypes by way of the quit of 2021.

"we are for this reason developing the situations for wi-fi updates to art work just as without problems and effects on vehicles as they do on smartphones," stated Bosch handling Director Markus Heyn.

The groups may also cooperate to conform current software program equipment to permit automakers and suppliers to simplify and accelerate their very own software updates.

Closing week, German carmaker Volkswagen announced a similar cooperation with Microsoft to apply its cloud computing offerings to help it streamline its software program development efforts for self-using cars.