12 Facts About QNX

QNX is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market.

QNX was one of the first commercially successful microkernel operating systems.

QNX released a suite of Eclipse plug-ins packaged with the Eclipse workbench in 2002, and named QNX Momentics Tool Suite.

Since the purchase by Harman, QNX software has been designed into over 200 different automobile makes and models, in telematics systems, and in infotainment and navigation units.

Blackberry 10 devices build upon the BlackBerry PlayBook QNX based operating system for touch devices, but adapt the user interface for smartphones using the Qt based Cascades Native User-Interface framework.

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Once configured by the automaker, QNX can be programmed to hand off its display and some functions to an Apple CarPlay device.

Later versions of QNX reduce the number of separate processes and integrate the network stack and other function blocks into single applications for performance reasons.

QNX operating system contained a web browser known as 'Voyager'.

Dan Dodge and Peter van der Veen hold based on the QNX operating system's distributed processing features known commercially as Transparent Distributed Processing.

QNX is used in car infotainment systems with many major car makers offering variants that include an embedded QNX architecture.

In recent years QNX has been used in automated drive or ADAS systems for automotive projects that require a functional safety certification.

QNX Neutrino has been ported to a number of platforms and now runs on practically any modern central processing unit (CPU) family that is used in the embedded market.