Luxurious carmaker Jaguar Land Rover will use BlackBerry’s infotainment and safety software program in its automobiles, the businesses mentioned on Thursday.

The licensing take care of Tata Motors Ltd’s JLR is the Canadian agency’s newest within the car trade following agreements with Qualcomm, Baidu, and Aptiv.

Underneath the deal, phrases of which weren’t disclosed, BlackBerry will license its QNX software program for vehicles and Certicom safety expertise to JLR.

The Waterloo, Ontario-based firm has sought to reinvent itself after the collapse of its smartphone enterprise, specializing in a quickly altering auto trade that’s racing so as to add extra autonomous options and in the end construct self-driving vehicles.

BlackBerry’s shares have risen more-than 80 % in Toronto previously .

The QNX unit, which has lengthy been used to run automotive infotainment consoles, is predicted to begin producing income in 2019.

“Related and autonomous automobiles will react and drive based mostly on wealthy information. Our platforms assist course of information effectively and preserve it safe and trusted,” mentioned John Wall, normal supervisor of BlackBerry QNX.

JLR, which was purchased by the Tata group in 2008, mentioned final that every one its new vehicles can be accessible in electrical or hybrid variations from 2020.

Britain’s largest carmaker mentioned in January it will open a software program engineering centre in Eire to work on superior automated driving and electrification applied sciences.

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