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ZF Acquires Minority Stake in Mobility Systems Software Firm Apex.AI.

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Germany-based automotive technology company ZF Group has strengthened its automotive software business by acquiring a 5% stake in US-based mobility systems software company Apex.AI, the company said.

In addition to the financial support, ZF will also develop software solutions based on the Apex.OS meta-operating system.

Among the ZF solutions for the software-defined vehicle, high-performance computers and software play a central role.

In the electric and electronic architectures of the next generation vehicles, they will control all important functions and connect them with both the vehicle systems and the outside world.

ZF Middleware is an open software platform that acts as a 'mediator' between a vehicle computer's operating system and its software applications.

Key functions of the middleware are the abstraction of the computer hardware from software applications and the communication between these applications.

The actual software functions, such as autonomous driving functions, can then in turn be built on top of this middleware.

Apex.OS is a meta-operating system derived from the Robot Operation System, originally developed for robotics applications.

Apex.AI has further developed this operating system for the automotive sector and gained ASIL D certification according to ISO 26262 functional safety standard for vehicles.

As a result, this core software for high-performance automotive computers, including the associated software development kits, is readily available, thereby offering car manufacturers the option of deploying scarce human resources more in other areas that offer significant differentiation for the end customer.

Apex.OS can be used in all types of vehicles, such as passenger cars, robotaxis, shuttles and commercial vehicles, and independent of their level of automation.

Apex.OS is written in new standards of the C++ programming language, which enables a high reusability of individual building blocks.

This approach is an alternative...

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