Wind River and Horizon Robotics, leaders in automotive software and hardware respectively, have formed a strategic collaboration to jointly develop an integrated ADAS solution for smart vehicles.

This partnership combines Wind River's expertise in cloud-to-edge software with Horizon's advanced Journey system-on-a-chip for vision perception and complex driving scenarios. The goal is to provide automakers with a complete ADAS hardware-software stack that significantly reduces development costs and accelerates time-to-market.

Under the agreement, OEMs can leverage Horizon's high-performance Journey chips pre-integrated with Wind River's real-time OS, hypervisor, cloud connectivity and other technologies. This streamlines integration and allows localized development and delivery of smart driving features tailored to the China market.

The companies envision the solution will power next-gen autonomous driving capabilities and software-defined vehicles. Wind River's proven safety-critical software complements Horizon's leadership in ADAS compute for consumer vehicles.

For Wind River, this furthers an open ecosystem strategy critical to smart mobility innovation. For Horizon, it expands collaboration with upstream software partners to optimize automated driving.

Horizon's Journey chips already enable 360-degree sensing for parking, cruise and intersection scenarios. With Wind River's expertise, the platform can now scale to full autonomous driving with enhanced safety, security and performance.

The deal builds on the companies' strengths - Wind River with decades of auto software experience, Horizon with localized market leadership. Together they can equip automakers with an agile ADAS foundation to define the future of intelligent vehicles in China and beyond.