Igalia shows Chromium on Webkit for Wayland at GENIVI Seoul event

Chromium on a Renesas R-Car M2 board, an embedded platform designed for this sector

Source: blogs.igalia.com

Why does Chromium in automotive matter? It moves the developer ecosystem outside the niche occupied mostly by Qt and into more innovation. Performance is not an issue now when running web apps in the car. Add the work of W3C in automotive and you have a killer combination for cars entering SOP in the next 3-4 years. Blended interfaces with smartphone apps will clearly benefit from using the same technology.

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