Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Qualcomm might be known best for powering the world’s smartphones and tablets, but they also have a growing presence in the automotive industry. At CES 2022, Qualcomm highlighted its Digital Chassis strategy and some of the automotive partners that are leveraging the technology.

Qualcomm has been supplying semiconductors to the automotive industry for two decades starting with its cellular technology for in-vehicle technology. As in-vehicle connectivity has moved toward universal installation in recent years, they have been expanding its reach into other parts of the vehicle leveraging the technology it developed in the mobile industry.

The overarching umbrella for Qualcomm's automotive offering is the digital chassis. It is a suite of cloud-connected “platforms” which automakers can adopt in full or take what they would like à la carte. The digital chassis is made up of an exhaustive list of automotive components: Snapdragon Ride Platform for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving, the Auto Connectivity Platform for LTE, 5G connected services, cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and precise positioning, and the next generation of the Snapdragon Cockpit, a digital cockpit and infotainment system.

At CES 2020 Qualcomm’s car-to-cloud service, was the company’s first product that aimed to keep cars connected to the cloud. This would allow for faster over-the-air updates and the ability to gather vehicle and usage analytics to create new revenue streams both for the company and for automaker partners.

During the show Volvo became one of the many automakers to integrate Snapdragon into their upcoming fully electric SUV and Volvo EV brand Polestar’s Polestar 3 will both be powered by Qualcomm’s digital cockpit, powered by Google’s Android OS.

Honda also shared plans to bring Qualcomm’s digital cockpit to its upcoming models for the first time, which it expects to be commercially available in the U.S. in the second half of 2022 and across the globe in 2023.

Renault Group announced in September its plans to integrate the digital cockpit into its Mégane E-Tech electric vehicle, but on Tuesday, the company shared plans to expand that collaboration to the entire suite of digital chassis platforms, including the connectivity platform and the Snapdragon Ride platform.

Volvo, Honda and Renault join the increasingly long list of Qualcomm Snapdragon customers, which seemed to have picked up in earnest around the time Qualcomm acquired automotive tech company Veoneer in October. Since then, Qualcomm has signed on around 40 OEMs, including BMW, GM, Hyundai, JiDu, Xpeng, NIO and WM, to integrate different Snapdragon platforms into t