Leapmotor and Qualcomm Debuts World's First Automotive Central Computer Powered by Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite Platforms
Highlights:
Leapmotor's flagship model D19 to become first mass-production vehicle powered by dual Snapdragon® Elite (SA8797P) automotive platforms.
Solution unifies cockpit, driver assistance, body control, and connectivity on one system, helping to reduce development complexity and costs for automakers, while delivering faster, smarter, and more personalized in-vehicle experiences through agentic AI.
Collaboration supports Leapmotor’s advancement toward a more centralized vehicle architecture, making cars easier and more efficient to build and delivering more responsive features for drivers and passengers.
At CES 2026, Leapmotor and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. introduced the world’s first cross‑domain integrated solution powered by Snapdragon® Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride™ Elite automotive platforms. Making its debut at Qualcomm Booth (West Hall, Booth #5001), the cross‑domain controller demonstrated how a dual‑chipset architecture delivers exceptional compute performance to streamline vehicle electronics, reduce system complexity, and enable more advanced AI capabilities across the entire vehicle. This collaboration highlights the growing value of deep chipmaker–automaker integration at the vehicle‑architecture level and provides a scalable blueprint as the industry accelerates toward centralized computing and fully software‑defined vehicles.
Entering mass production, Leapmotor’s flagship D19 is the first vehicle globally to launch with this high-performance central controller based on dual SA8797P. Leveraging two Snapdragon Elite automotive platforms, the central domain controller as the ability to unify key vehicle domains, such as intelligent cockpit, driver assistance, body controls (lighting, climate, doors, windows), and the vehicle gateway, into a single high‑performance system. The dual‑chipset setup also provides the compute headroom needed for real‑time coordination and advanced AI, including emerging agentic AI workloads. With the Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU, Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU, and Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU working in parallel, the platform can run both a full‑modality large AI model for the cockpit and a VLA multimodal model for driver assistance, enabling more intelligent, responsive, and future‑ready driving experiences.
Key System Capabilities: the system supports up to eight displays, including multiple 3K and 4K screens, and up to 18‑channel audio for immersive in‑car entertainment. The system also enables seamless OTA updates, remote diagnostics, and remote vehicle control, with its service‑oriented architecture (SOA) offering more than 200 modular capabilities for flexible, user‑defined experiences.
Driver Assistance: system designed to support up to 13 cameras and multiple sensors, including LiDAR, vehicle-millimeter‑wave radar, ultrasonic sensors, and a high‑precision IMU, to deliver reliable L2 driver‑assistance. With more than 30 advanced features such as Parking‑to‑Parking (P2P), the controller is engineered to help vehicles handle complex daily and urban scenarios. The system also provides automakers a scalable way to enhance safety features across models, while drivers benefit from smoother, more intuitive assistance.
In-Vehicle Connectivity: controller is engineered to support fast, reliable communication between all the vehicle’s systems, while also supporting voice calling, emergency services, Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, and precise location services. This level of connectivity gives automakers a strong foundation for safety features and lets drivers enjoy a seamless, fully connected experience on the road.
Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Ride Elite automotive platforms are flagship solutions within the Snapdragon® Digital Chassis™ portfolio. Built on a flexible hardware architecture with software virtualization, it enables efficient operation of multiple applications and helps automakers develop configurable, scalable SDVs across segments while simplifying overall vehicle architecture.
“Intelligence is profoundly reshaping the automotive industry, and technological innovation remains at the core of Leapmotor’s development,” said Zhu Jiangming, founder, chairman and chief executive officer , Leapmotor. “The mass production of our central domain controller based on dual Snapdragon Elite automotive platforms will further support Leapmotor’s intelligent vehicle architecture evolution and enable us to deliver industry-leading driving experiences.”
“Our collaboration with Leapmotor has consistently pushed the boundaries of automotive innovation through our Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions,” said Nakul Duggal, executive vice president and group General manager, automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and robotics, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are proud to help deliver the world’s first mass-produced multidomain integrated solution and to see our Snapdragon Elite automotive platforms driving the industry toward central computing and SDVs—bringing advanced automotive technologies to more automakers and consumers.”
The demonstration is available by appointment only at the Qualcomm Booth throughout CES 2026 (located in West Hall, Booth #5001) from Tuesday, January 6 through Friday, January 9.
About Leapmotor
Created in 2015, Leapmotor is a technology-driven intelligent electric vehicle company. Jiangming Zhu, the founder of Leapmotor, was an electronic engineer and had over 30 years of technical experience. Leapmotor is based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in China, with business covering smart electric vehicle design, R&D and manufacturing, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), electric control system and electric motor system, battery system development, cloud-based automotive connectivity solutions. As a technology-based company, Leapmotor insists on designing and producing all of the core systems and components for its vehicles in-house, with its proportion of self-development in high-value-added core components accounts for 65% of the vehicle cost, and has launched the industry's first 8-in-1 electric drive system, the industry's first mass-produced CTC (Cell-To-Chassis) technology, and the industry's first “four domain integration” centralized integrated electronic and electrical architecture, and other leading intelligent electric technologies. Leapmotor’s product lineup spans four major series—A, B, C and D—forming a comprehensive portfolio that covers sedans, SUVs and MPVs. The company also offers both pure electric and extended-range powertrain options, addressing the diverse needs of different consumer segments.
In the first 11 months of 2025, Leapmotor recorded vehicle sales exceeding 530,000 units, ranking first among China’s new energy vehicle startups.
About Qualcomm
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