by 2025 50 of the top 10 automotive original equipment manufacturers oems will design their own chips and establish direct strategic and longterm working relations with chip companies according to market research firm gartnerin 2021 several tech companies created opensource vehicle architecture operating systems and open electric vehicle ev platforms this approach of adopting new partnership models in the automotive sector will increase in 2022 according to a latest reportas digital technology becomes the differentiator in the car sector automakers will soon have no choice but to become tech or software companies themselves a new report has forecast advt the automotive companies will increasingly look at data in a similar way to that of the tech world to build or integrate ecosystems that will allow them to develop more compelling features or digital servicesby 2025 50 of the top 10 automotive original equipment manufacturers oems will design their own chips and establish direct strategic and longterm working relations with chip companies according to market research firm gartnerfor the last 100 years automakers have focused on the mechanical side of car development and have mostly left software to other parties as digital technology becomes the differentiator in the car software will become the main profitability growth driver for automakers ultimately the goal for original equipment manufacturers oems will be to turn into tech or software companies said pedro pacheco senior research director at gartnerautomakers are reevaluating their longheld inventory strategy following the justintime jit principle which led oems and tier 1 suppliers to have no buffer inventory to fall back on during the various chip shortages as a result automakers are reviewing how they deal with chip manufacturers and considering designing their own chips gartner predicts that by 2028 70 of vehicles sold will utilise android automotive operating system up from less than 1 todayas developing technology and software on their own is difficult car companies can either partner with digital giants to succeed in turning software into a main moneymaker or build vast inhouse resources to achieve it mostly on their own pacheco elaborated by 2023 half of the top 10 automakers will offer unlocks and capability upgrades through software updates that an be purchased after the sale of the vehicle it addedalso read advt automakers have no choice but to become tech or software firmsthe automotive companies will increasingly look at data in a similar way to that of the tech world to build or integrate ecosystems that will allow them to develop more compelling features or digital servicessee more details bangalore mirror bureau published on feb 21 2022 at 0734 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community