Qualcomm and BMW extend automotive silicon partnership through the next decade
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and the BMW Group have announced a major multi-year agreement securing compute silicon for BMW’s next-generation digital cockpit, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and automated driving (AD) technologies.
The agreement extends a multi-year technical collaboration between the two companies and establishes the hardware foundation for BMW’s upcoming vehicle architectures. Under the terms of the deal, BMW will incorporate Qualcomm’s Snapdragon® Digital Chassis™ solutions, including high-performance Snapdragon® Elite automotive system-on-chips (SoCs) and dedicated artificial intelligence accelerators, across its future vehicle lineups.
Expanding the Snapdragon Digital Chassis
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis serves as an integrated automotive compute architecture designed to manage core vehicle domains—from infotainment and spatial computing to autonomous driving functions. Built on a common underlying hardware and software framework, the platform allows automakers to centralize compute power, enabling different electronic systems to operate as a unified, intelligent architecture.
The partnership aims to scale processing power and AI compute capacity across BMW’s global production programs over the next ten years, addressing the growing computational demands of modern software-defined vehicles.
Continuing Momentum from the Neue Klasse Architecture
The announcement builds on previous joint engineering efforts between Qualcomm and BMW. A primary milestone in their partnership was demonstrated in November 2025 with the commercial deployment of Snapdragon Ride™ Pilot in the BMW iX3—the debut vehicle for BMW’s Neue Klasse EV platform.
Co-developed by both companies, Snapdragon Ride Pilot powers BMW’s “Symbiotic Drive” system. The platform provides automated driving functions while focusing on human-machine interaction, maintaining driver engagement alongside automated driver-assistance features.
With the new decade-long agreement, BMW plans to leverage Qualcomm’s evolving silicon stack to expand these automated driving and cockpit capabilities across additional vehicle classes and markets.
