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Gartner identified the top five technology trends for 2022 that CIOs will become the
need to consider to better prepare for the software, hardware and
digital transformations occurring in the automotive sector. main profitability
growth driver for
automakers
“ or the last 100 years, automakers (JIT) principle, which led OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers
have focused on the mechanical to have no buffer inventory to fall back on during the
Fside of car development and have various chip shortages. As a result, automakers are reviewing
mostly left software to other parties,” said how they deal with chip manufacturers and considering designing their own chips.
Pedro Pacheco, senior research director at Gartner predicts that by 2025, 50% of the top ten automotive OEMs will design
Gartner. “As digital technology becomes the their own chips and establish direct, strategic, long-term working relations with chip
differentiator in the car, software will become companies, while giving up JIT inventory management practice.
the main profitability growth driver for
automakers. Ultimately, the goal for original Trend 2: Digital giants integrate the car into an holistic ecosystem
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will be to 2022 will see digital giants such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Alibaba
turn into tech or software companies.” or Tencent, continuously expand their footprint in vehicle technology. “These tech
companies are bringing the car closer to their respective ecosystems, which in turn,
The top five automotive technology opens new vehicle-connected services,” said Pacheco.
trends for 2022 are: Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70% of vehicles sold will utilise the Android
Automotive operating system, up from fewer than 1% today.
Trend 1: Automakers review their “As developing technology and software on their own is difficult, car companies
approach to hardware sourcing can either partner with digital giants to succeed in turning software into a main
Automakers are re-evaluating their long-held money-maker or build vast in-house resources to achieve it mostly on their own,”
inventory strategy following the just-in-time said Pacheco.

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