Garmin and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. at CES 2025 announced the expansion of their automotive technology collaboration with the new Garmin Unified Cabin™ 2025, a next-generation digital cockpit solution featuring scalable domain controller capabilities from a single Garmin control module. The cutting-edge solution, powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon^® Cockpit Elite platform, delivers intuitive and immersive entertainment experiences across all vehicle displays, facilitating a software-defined vehicle architecture. This collaboration extends a successful history that most recently resulted in the award-winning Garmin Unified Cabin domain controller solution.

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Through the technology collaboration, Garmin digital cockpit solutions will offer next-gen hardware built on the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform, with enhanced onboard generative AI enabled by Snapdragon Cockpit Elite’s dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), supporting theme customization, voice assistants, and more. Powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ highest performing CPU, Qualcomm Oryon™, the improved Qualcomm^® Adreno™ GPU and the Qualcomm^® Hexagon™ NPU for superior multimodal AI performance, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform is designed to bring unmatched in-vehicle experiences and on-device AI to all tiers of software-defined vehicles.

“Garmin and Qualcomm Technologies have formed a close relationship to deliver innovative solutions that drive both the feature set and capabilities of next generation domain controllers. We are proud to collaborate with Qualcomm Technologies to deliver a first-of-its-kind automotive OEM solution and feature set with an unparalleled level of capability, scalability and integration,” said Matt Munn, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Garmin Automotive OEM.

“At Qualcomm Technologies, we’re thrilled to deepen our collaboration with Garmin, combining our Snapdragon Cockpit Elite platform with their automotive expertise to redefine in-vehicle experiences,” said Nakul Duggal, group general manager, automotive, industrial and cloud, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “This next-generation digital cockpit solution offers automakers unparalleled entertainment and personalization for their vehicles, setting a new standard for software-defined vehicle architecture.”

Garmin and Qualcomm Technologies first teamed up in 2019 to deliver domain controllers for a major OEM to market, and in 2022 the companies collaborated on the first iteration of the Garmin Unified Cabin based on the Snapdragon ^® Cockpit Platform, with subsequent models delivered each year since. Garmin has since worked with Qualcomm Technologies for digital cockpit solutions as part of a multi-year project, showcasing cutting-edge features through the seamless integration of various peripherals and displays to create a multi-zone, multi-user architecture within the vehicle, complemented by software components to deliver a comprehensive infotainment, digital cluster and entertainment system.

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Source- Prnewswire