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How to win the race with software-defined vehicles
At Flex and KPMG’s 6th Annual Automotive Innovation Summit in San Jose, California, Mike Thoeny addressed the rapid technology transitions reshaping the automotive industry in his talk, “Reinventing the Automotive High-Tech Ecosystem.”
Thoeny delved into the significant challenges the automotive industry continues to face in scaling software-defined vehicles to meet growing consumer demand. He highlighted how the automotive ecosystem can adopt cross-industry lessons from an industry that follows a similar trajectory of rapid technological growth — the data center market — to launch software-defined vehicles with greater speed and resiliency.
We hear much about accelerating innovation on the software-defined vehicle, but to lead on software, automakers need an earlier and deeper understanding of compute power and the hardware powering tomorrow’s software-defined vehicles. This starts with collaborating with a range of partners on technology, architecture, and design, earlier in the process.
— Mike Thoeny
Watch the video to discover:
- The roadblocks automakers face due to increasing software complexity in delivering software-defined vehicles to market
- How vehicles are evolving into “edge data centers on wheels” and the necessity for earlier collaboration throughout the product lifecycle
- How Flex is empowering automakers to speed the delivery of software-defined vehicles at scale through our flexible business models and end-to-end capabilities
