We have seen reports, credited to Business Korea, that LG Display expects Mercedes to adopt the company’s OLEDs in production vehicles in 2022. The company is already supplying LCDs to Mercedes. Separately, Business Korea said that LG Electronics has decided to work with the Here Technologies collaboration for mapping between BMW, Audi and Mercedes as well as Intel. Here claims that 80% of autos with GPS in North America and Europe use data from the group.
We also heard that Blackberry has lost Mercedes as a client for its QNX automotive operating system. Mercedes has a new MBUX (Mercedes-Benz User Experience) infotainment system that will be used in the 2018 A Class vehicles and will extend into other models. The system will use Linux and run on an Nvidia hardware platform.
