Bosch and Qualcomm Technologies announced today that they are expanding their strategic partnership, adding ADAS (advanced driving assistance systems) to their cockpit offerings. With the expansion, they are aiming to help address one of the industry’s most pressing needs—scaling intelligent vehicle technology to meet growing consumer demand for vehicles that are automated, connected, and highly personalized.

“The growing success of our collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies underlines a central value Bosch brings to the industry: we provide the robust, high-performance computing platforms that form the backbone of today’s software-defined vehicle,” said Christoph Hartung, Member of the Bosch Mobility business sector board, Chief Technology Officer for Systems, Software, and Services, and President of the division Cross-Domain Computing Solutions.

By expanding its work with Bosch into production-ready ADAS platforms, Qualcomm is helping automakers bring advanced driver assistance across vehicle lines more efficiently, with a clear path to centralized compute, said Nakul Duggal, EVP and Group GM, for Automotive, Industrial and Embedded IoT, and Robotics, at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“Our collaboration with Bosch spans the full spectrum of vehicle compute—from high‑performance cockpit systems to scalable automated driving solutions and emerging centralized vehicle architectures—all powered by Snapdragon Digital Chassis automotive platforms,” said Duggal. “ADAS is where performance and safety must scale in the real world.”

 

Qualcomm’s ADAS priorities

Driver-assistance technology has been a growing focus of Qualcomm’s development and industry announcements.

For instance, Qualcomm and Wayve announced just last month that they are working to advance end-to-end AI for quick ADAS and AD deployments (see Futurride’s coverage here). The companies are collaborating on pre‑integrated systems and introducing the Wayve AI Driver as a new software option for automakers using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride platform and active safety software to help accelerate time‑to‑market across vehicle models and tiers.

In September, Qualcomm Technologies and BMW Group unveiled an AI-enabled Snapdragon Ride Pilot automated driving system (See our coverage here). The AI-enabled system, powered by Snapdragon Ride system-on-chips and the jointly developed Snapdragon Ride AD software stack, debuted in the new BMW iX3 revealed in conjunction with the IAA Mobility 2025 show in Munich and is now offered by Qualcomm to all global automakers and Tier-1 suppliers.

This week’s announcement on the new ADAS production programs leverages Bosch’s cost-optimized vehicle computer architecture, powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Ride platform, to support practical and scalable ADAS deployments. The collaboration includes combined cockpit and ADAS platforms supporting mixed criticality applications delivered on a single Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC (system-on-chip), aligning with automakers’ software-defined-vehicle strategic initiatives.

Qualcomm Technologies used CES 2026 to announce the first start of production and commercial deployment of the Snapdragon Ride Flex platform (read more here).

“This is the only solution, at least we’re aware of, that is able to combine infotainment support and systems and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), all combined and managed from a single chip,” said Ignacio Contreras, Vice President of Product Marketing for Automotive at Qualcomm, for the Las Vegas show. “This is very important to bring more cost effectiveness in terms of technology for the vehicles and allows us to bring both advanced ADAS and digital cockpit functions in a very cost-effective manner to entry and mid-tiers of vehicles.”

 

Bosch ADAS integration platform

At the core of the programs announced this week is the Bosch ADAS integration platform—a scalable, modular vehicle computer designed for ADAS functions. With high bandwidth, computing power, and memory management, it meets strict safety and security standards, fuses multiple sensor technologies for a precise 360° environment model, and runs complex algorithms to deliver safe, dynamic vehicle behavior—even at high speeds.

The joint approach is delivering scalable, cost-optimized vehicle computers with ADAS solutions that have secured multiple customer design wins in the East Asian market.

Powered by the scalable Snapdragon Ride Platform from Qualcomm Technologies, Bosch´s vehicle computers support for a range of configurations—from entry-level ADAS, such as speed and distance regulation or lane keeping, to advanced automated driving systems. The first vehicles from these new business wins are expected on the road in 2028.

The joint efforts provide automakers with critical flexibility and a clear migration path to centralized computing architectures featuring a small number of highly powerful vehicle computers instead of many individual control units. For instance, ADAS and cockpit solutions can also be consolidated onto a single platform to give automakers even greater flexibility and reduce architectural complexity.

To accomplish this, the partners are working on solutions using existing products.

Snapdragon Ride Flex builds on this foundation by enabling the consolidation of cockpit and ADAS functions onto a single, safety-certifiable SoC, reducing system complexity, power consumption, and cost while giving automakers a path toward centralized compute architectures. Bosch’s cockpit and ADAS integration platform combines the system functions for assisted and automated driving and infotainment, like personalized navigation and voice assistance functions in one high-performance computer.

Both the ADAS and cross-domain computing solutions are designed to meet stringent safety requirements up to ISO ASIL-D while reducing complexity and cost. For drivers, this means greater access to advanced Level 2 driving features like lane keeping, hands-free driving, and intelligent automated parking.

The companies’ collaboration on modern digital cockpits—based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Cockpit platforms—across North America, Asia, and Europe saw Bosch’s first deliveries in 2021, scaling from one million units in 2023 to ten million in less than three years.

The Bosch cockpit integration platform can drive an increasing number of in-vehicle displays and camera inputs. Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Cockpit Platforms combine high-performance compute with power-efficient design to enable a range of vehicle experiences. That includes crisp, essential displays in cost-optimized systems up to premium systems featuring ultra-low-latency HMI responsiveness, multi-display configurations, immersive multimedia, AI-powered conversational voice assistance, and higher levels of personalization—while maintaining efficiency across vehicle segments.