BlackBerry QNX Technology Now Accessible to Embedded Developers via Cloud

BlackBerry has revealed its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering its QNX technology to mission-critical embedded systems developers through the cloud. The announcement came during the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference in Las Vegas, where BlackBerry showcased its artificial intelligence (AI) data platform, BlackBerry IVY, operating natively on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors.

The demonstration emphasized the potential for developers to leverage the cloud in optimizing the development, testing, and integration of automotive AI-driven solutions, which can then be deployed to run in-vehicle on automotive-grade hardware. QNX, a software platform explicitly designed for embedded systems and their elongated lifecycles, comprises the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system (RTOS) for ARM and x86 platforms, the QNX Momentics tool suite, and the QNX Software Center. BlackBerry IVY is an automotive AI platform co-developed by BlackBerry and AWS.

By running the QNX RTOS in the cloud, it functions as a cloud-native developer workbench that can be utilized independently or in conjunction with BlackBerry IVY. It also includes a Standard Networking stack for basic networking requirements and a High-Performance Networking stack for complex networking. Furthermore, its comprehensive POSIX-compliant development environment should be familiar to those who have worked with Linux.

BlackBerry aims to extend cloud capabilities to embedded systems developers across various industries, such as automotive, robotics, medical devices, industrial controls, aerospace, and defense. Grant Courville, Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at BlackBerry QNX, emphasized that providing these capabilities through the cloud for the first time will help embedded systems developers expedite collaboration and velocity throughout the entire product development and deployment lifecycle.

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