Outlook

There are five or six major piston manufacturers in the world for several dozen carmakers. Although the piston is essential and particularly difficult to produce on a large scale, the automakers nevertheless retain a dominant position in the value chain. With Automotive Grade Linux, Android Auto, CarPlay for Apple and probably Baidu, Foxconn or HarmonyOS (Huawei's OS), there will probably be few world-class operating system (OS) suppliers. For the moment, they're all from American or Asian manufacturers, and none from Europe. An operating system (OS) is a set of programs that directs the use of a computer's resources by software. It receives requests from application software to use the computer's resources – memory storage resources...