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Explore how tech giants like Amazon, Apple, and NVIDIA are shaping automotive infotainment as vehicles shift toward software-defined platforms—highlighting Android’s growing role in this evolving ecosystem.

This report reviews the developments among prominent technology companies in automotive, including Amazon, Apple, NVIDIA, Meta, and Qualcomm, with a specific focus on infotainment. As the automotive industry pivots to the software-defined vehicle model, flexibility and accommodation of respective functional layers become critical factors. Android has become the platform of choice for automotive infotainment systems, but despite its name, it is relatively brand agnostic and flexible, enabling a robust ecosystem of developers and companies to participate.