Automotive Electronics Blog

AUTOSAR solidified

The worldwide development partnership for a standardized automotive software architecture started fairly promising. Unfortunately, 'versionitis' has taken hold and now the two lines 3.x and 4.x are in use concurrently and both need to be developed. The newest v4 release is mainly dealing with stability issues.

Broken bonds of brakes

It's difficult to imagine a major automotive supplier without brake technology in its portfolio, but it's bound to happen: the Bosch Group intends to sell its global foundation brakes business to a private equity firm. Since Bosch is not known for making rash decisions, this carve-out is certainly going to have some impact on the industry.