Original equipment manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers, and the rest of the value
chain, including the semiconductor industry, are reshaping their product
portfolios, development processes, and business models to support this
transformation to software-defined vehicles (SDVs). The focus on software is
rippling out through the automotive sector, forcing the industry to rethink
organization, leadership, processes, and future roadmaps.
The Software-defined Vehicle: Its Current Trajectory and Execution
Challenges assesses the state of SDVs and explores the potential
hurdles to execution and examines the work being done in the industry. The goal
is to evaluate whether the implementation of SDVs will encounter the same fate
as electrification or autonomous technologies, which after some level of
disillusionment, are expected to pick up momentum in a more mature way.