BlackBerry Ltd. BB-T has announced a deal to work with chipmaker AMD AMD-Q on new robotic systems technology.
It made the announcement at the Embedded World conference in Nuremburg, Germany.
The collaboration combines BlackBerry’s software with AMD’s computer hardware.
Grant Courville, vice-president of product and strategy at BlackBerry QNX, says the collaboration will provide an integrated software-hardware foundation.
BlackBerry says the combination will enable sensor fusion, high-performance data processing, real-time control, industrial networking, and reduced latency in robotic applications.
Shares in BlackBerry were up 34 cents or nearly nine per cent at $4.25 in early trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday.