Qualcomm hosted its first Snapdragon: Auto Day for India on Wednesday, showing many strategic support in the automotive sector. Imagine if I tell you that the car you are driving has a Qualcomm chipset? This was the news for me when I spoke with Qualcomm officials on the occasion of Snapdragon for India: Auto Day in New Delhi. In this incident, chip-maker performed various strategic collaborations with integrated vehicle speed control (IVMC) such as Kipit, such as AI-Integrated Smart Chassis platform. Of course, it is powered by Qualcomm, which serves as an environment for such a technical stack.
Group GM, Automotive and Industrial and Embedded Iot, Qualcomm, Nakul Duggal talked about the company’s strategic focus on India, which highlights its important engineering presence and innovation efforts. During his keynote speaker, Duggal talked about shifts in premium experiences from low-end in India, with focus on AI through digital chassis. The event also highlighted Qualcomm’s partnership with prominent vehicle manufacturers including Maruti Suzuki India Limited and Mahindra, which shows advanced technologies such as autonomous braking and cyber security facilities.
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Nakul Dugl, Group GM, Automotive and Industrial and Embedded Iot, Qualcomm, Keenot
Maruti Suzuki India Limited Managing Director and CEO Hisshi Tekuchi discussed how cooperation with Qualcomm began five years ago. He also revealed that the second generation Baleno was the first car of the company to use Qualcomm connected car facilities, and said that the upcoming E-Vitara EV would feature Qualcomm technology. The event also saw the presence of Velusami R, Chairman – Automotive Business, M&M Limited and Managing Director, Mahindra Electric Automobile Limited.
Qualcomm premium is giving power to in-cabin experiences
Qualcomm’s Daggal discussed various aspects of how the company is increasing the premium in-cabin experiences, such as the front and back with many high-rage displays enhanced with graphics support, a natural language understanding for spontaneous voice control for vehicle interactions, multimal interfaces for many mechanisms to attach a vehicle, can provide all the obligation and excessive personal experiences to attach all the personal experience Is. He also discussed major aspects such as driver monitoring, which alerts and aware of his environment to increase safety to drivers, as well as adding relevant awareness to further enhance the monitoring system, safety and safety of surrounding-view cameras.
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Qualcomm says that more than 350 million vehicles are operated by Snapdragon Digital Chassis globally.
The premium in-cabin experience will also include a premium sound experience with zonal audio along with cancellation of active noise and echoes, canceling the resonance to the user and high levels of high levels for relevant data, canceling the echoes, machine learning and edge AI.
Dugal gave an example of how Qualcomm has been in automotive for 20+ years, “We started our journey with General Motors in 2002, when the US was going from analog to digital, we worked with GM, which they had to use CDMA, which we were actually for trucking.
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Qualcomm 4G/ 5G/ GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Le, nearby charging station notification, vehicle service alert and more takes into account two-wheelers as well as two-wheelers.
V2x is an important component, and adoption in India is important
Duggal also touched global call to action for road accidents. He claimed that around 1.2 million ambience globally can be prevented every year by adopting advanced vehicle-to-all (V2X) technology. In his keynote speaker, he reported that V2X technology supports vehicles (V2V), roadside infrastructure (V2I) and weak road users (V2Vru) direct, low-oppression communication. Technology can help with collision prevent safety alerts, further collision prevention, and road safety threat warns for cyclists and pedestrians along with protecting system.
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Qualcomm’s India focus includes digital cockpit and smart mobility
Duggal also talked about how the Autotalks acquisition by Qualcomm brought global, production-taiyar V2X solutions.
He also touched the fact that India has been an engineering hub for Qualcomm for more than 10 years, where the team supports the entire chipset and software roadmap, test engineering, telemetics, cockpit, ADAS, two-wheelers, connected services, global customer engineering and customers of India. Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore are centers.
Qualcomm wants to make India a global leader in connected security
The most important section of the incident was when Qualcomm’s Nakul Duggal emphasized the need to align the government and the industry to accelerate the V2X deployment on a scale, which aims to reduce road accidents and deadly in the country.
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Qualcomm provides telematics, digital cockpit, ADAS, connected two-wheel and connected services
This will include a close-term government regulatory certainty and supporting policy, such as the deployment of V2X to delicate a 5875-5925MHz band as soon as possible to introduce a life-safety security spectrum for free, as well as to include V2X in India NCAP 2.0, which is set to implement the 202 of Veeelles. They are visible for four-wheelers and trucks, such as the deployment of V2X roadside units in highways such as crash hotspots.
He also discussed how the AI-manual automatic crash reaction can be highly efficient, such as integrating infotainment and telematics for increased safety.

