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Tier IV and Renesas Electronics are joining forces to build an open, AI-native computing platform for Software-Defined Vehicles. The collaboration brings Tier IV’s autonomous driving software, including its open-source Autoware platform and Reference AI model, together with Renesas’ next-generation R-Car Gen 5 automotive SoC.
The companies want to create a scalable hardware and software platform that can support autonomous driving from Level 2+ and Level 2++ advanced driver assistance to Level 4 systems. R-Car Gen 5 will become one of Tier IV’s main reference computing platforms for Autoware and future AI-native driving technologies.
The collaboration also includes optimizing Autoware and Tier IV’s end-to-end autonomous driving AI model for R-Car Gen 5. This brings conventional autonomous driving software and newer AI-native models onto the same computing platform.
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The move comes as automakers shift toward SDVs, where software, AI and computing increasingly determine vehicle capabilities. Tier IV is also exploring AI accelerators for transformer-based driving models and next-generation sensing technologies such as LiDAR and 4D radar.
Tier IV will demonstrate Autoware and its Reference AI model running on Renesas’ R-Car X5H at Automotive World 2026 in Japan from September 9 to 11.
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