BlackBerry's QNX OS for Safety Adopted by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor Development Kit

BlackBerry's QNX OS for Safety Integrated with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor

On August 27, 2025, in Waterloo, Canada, BlackBerry Limited announced that its division QNX has successfully integrated the QNX® OS for Safety 8 into the new NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor development kit. This innovative development kit serves as a next-generation platform crucial for the future of autonomous vehicles. By utilizing the cutting-edge AI capabilities, safety features, and scalability offered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, developers will be able to accelerate the entire process of designing, testing, and deploying next-generation autonomous driving systems from early research stages to commercial production.

At the core of this product lies the NVIDIA AGX Thor SoC, which achieves up to 2,000 performance in FP4 and 1,000 INT8 TFLOPS for generative AI tasks. This hardware leverages the NVIDIA DriveOS, a key component designed for automotive-grade functional safety that ensures overall system reliability. The NVIDIA DRIVE platform is built on a comprehensive Halos safety system, enabling developers to construct safe next-generation autonomous vehicles using a diverse array of software stacks, sensors, and redundant computing resources.

As part of the DriveOS stack, developers can make use of QNX® OS for Safety, a real-time operating system pre-certified to the highest standards for functional safety and security in the automotive industry, specifically the