JOYNEXT Joins the SOAFEE SIG as a Voting Member

NINGBO, May 10, 2022 —— JOYNEXT, a pioneer in intelligent solutions for networked vehicles, announced that the company officially joined the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE) as one of the first group of membership companies. The company’s inclusion as a voting member demonstrates JOYNEXT’s well-recognized technological innovation capabilities in the automotive industry over the past few years.

The SOAFEE project has been established for the purposes of delivering a cloud-native architecture, enhanced for mixed-criticality automotive applications and corresponding open-source reference implementation to enable commercial and non-commercial offerings. The initiative is an industry-led collaboration, with input and participation from automobile manufacturers, Tier-1, semiconductor suppliers, open source and independent software vendors, and cloud technology leaders.

JOYNEXT has been dedicated to providing infotainment and connectivity solutions to well-known automotive manufacturers for over 20 years. In SOAFEE, we will share our wealth of experience in hardware and software development, and create standardized solutions, for instance, hardware abstraction layer and tool kits to help with efficient software adaptation to multiple hardware carriers.

Together with SOAFEE, we look forward to creating more scalable and adaptable cloud-native development solutions, delivering a safe, intelligent, personalized experience to consumers.

About JOYNEXT

JOYNEXT is the Automotive Connectivity BU of Joyson Electronics. Headquartered in Ningbo, China. We have around 1,300 employees, including over 800 R&D engineers, working across four R&D centers, three global manufacturing locations, and seven customer centers around the world.

With over two decades of experience as a Tier-1 supplier to the world’s top automotive makers, we have established and maintained long-term partnerships with leading automotive brands, such as Volkswagen, Audi, and Ford. Putting ourselves in the shoes of our users, we are consistently working on intelligent car networking solutions of vital importance to both car makers and users. Through our V2X (Vehicle to Everything) technology, we have achieved the intelligent connectivity of cars, infrastructure, and even mobile devices, such as smartphones, for advancing the uptake of autonomous driving. In addition to our diverse range of exemplary cloud-based service features, we also deliver IoV-related SaaS/SaaP services, such as navigation and AR engines.

Balancing innovation with sustainability, our success is built on a strong foundation of product R&D and in novation, industrialization, connectivity services, automotive cyber security, and more. Our in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and intelligent networking technologies have been used in over ten million cars around the world. Moreover, JOYNEXT won an order of 5G-V2X, and became one of the world's first 5G-V2X mass producers.

Working together with employees around the world, we are dedicated to delivering next-gen technologies, making continuous efforts in shaping future smart mobility!