TomTom and Telechips will promote jointly developed IVI in global IVI market, especially, in East Asia including China market.

For collaboration, Telechips will provide market verified automotive multimedia, connectivity, broadcasting chipset, and TomTom will provide Map and Traffic services.

With IVI jointly developed by TomTom and Telechips, Telechips expects to gain competitiveness in global market including China.

“By partnering with Telechips on this project, we are able to bring TomTom’s offering to an expanded customer base in the Asian market, especially China,” said Antoine Saucier Managing Director of TomTom Automotive. “This agreement will help us to accelerate our growth and development in the region.”

“We are excited to collaborate with TomTom on this project providing integrated Display Audio and AVN reference solution. We are expecting to expand customer base in the Asian market, especially China,” said Jangkyu Lee, CEO of Telechips Inc. “This agreement will help us to provide standardized IVI system to Tier 1, 2 suppliers.”