Can automakers’ drive to steer the car-software ecosystem open new roads for vendors, tech players?
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Can automakers’ drive to steer the car-software ecosystem open new roads for vendors, tech players?

By Eduardo Saverin

Synopsis

Carmakers are not software-development companies. So, they can’t make software fully in-house and will need the help of software-engineering firms. They can own and maintain it once the software is developed. We are likely to see more specialisation and bundling of related components by tier-I players. The last of a two-part series.

The auto industry is undergoing a big change, as we told you in the first part of this series. The automakers no longer want to depend on tier-I suppliers for car software. They are increasingly outsourcing the job to engineering-services companies so that the control remains in their hands, and any change or addition in features can be done without much delay.Companies like Volkswagen and Toyota are leading this march.The German auto major aims

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Eduardo Saverin