Weiner's predecessor was Autoliv, the world's largest manufacturer of airbags and seat belts, focusing on automotive safety electronics and autonomous driving. In 20 18, Weininger was spun off from Autoliv and became an independent company. In 20021year, the net sales of Weininger was $65.438+$66 million.
Weininger has both hardware development and manufacturing capabilities and software development capabilities. The main products include autopilot controller, active and passive safety system and autopilot sensor. Its main customers are Volvo, Subaru and Mercedes-Benz.
Weininger is not only good at software research and development, but also has strong ability in hardware development. Millimeter wave radar produced by Weininger is mainly supplied to Ford, Honda, Jeep and other manufacturers.
In terms of lidar, Weiner is the foundry of Verdun. In addition to hardware, perception and decision-making, Weiner also produces execution hardware. Weiner has established a joint venture with Nissan, an affiliated company of Honda, specializing in the production of automotive electronic braking equipment.
What Qualcomm wants to buy this time is the Arriver department of Weininger, and nothing else is needed.
Arriver itself is Weiner's most forward-looking department in autonomous driving business, and its main research and development content is Weiner's next-generation visual perception and strategy software stack.
Weininger was deeply tied up with Volvo, a Swedish car company, and established Zenuity, an autonomous driving company. However, due to the different expectations of the two sides for this company, the last two investors parted ways and Zenuity ceased to exist.
The initial cooperation plan between Qualcomm and Weiner was that Qualcomm provided the hardware, and Weiner implanted the Arriver into a system on a chip of Snapdragon Ride, a self-driving platform in Qualcomm, but the intellectual property rights were owned by Weiner, and the most critical intellectual property rights were exactly what Qualcomm needed.
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