"Software Supremacy: How Early Adopters of Unified Platforms Are Leaving Competition in the Dust. A growing divide is emerging in the automotive industry as car manufacturers who invested in unified software platforms are now poised to harness the power of artificial intelligence at scale. Those who delayed or struggled to consolidate their fragmented systems, on the other hand, risk being relegated to the status of commodity hardware suppliers, competing solely on manufacturing costs rather than innovation and technology. As the industry continues to shift towards a more digital and connected landscape, the stakes are high for companies that fail to adapt to this new reality."
Automakers that built unified software platforms early can deploy AI at scale. Those still consolidating fragmented systems risk becoming commodity hardware suppliers competing only on manufacturing ...