Mucahithan Avcioglu<\/p>\n
23 December 2025\u2022Update: 23 December 2025<\/p>\n
ISTANBUL <\/p>\n
Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday that it will acquire Germany’s ZF Group’s autonomous driving technology unit for \u20ac1.5 billion ($1.8 billion).<\/p>\n
The company said in a statement that the deal will enable Harman, an automotive technology and lifestyle audio subsidiary of Samsung, to obtain items and technologies linked to advanced driver assistance systems, including front-facing car cameras and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) controllers.<\/p>\n
“With this acquisition, HARMAN has secured strategic inroads in the ADAS and central compute platforms markets, reinforcing a foundation that anchors and advances its role in the fast-growing software-defined vehicle (SDV) market,” Samsung said.<\/p>\n
The acquisition supports HARMAN’s plan for next-generation vehicle architectures by combining ZF’s ADAS capabilities with HARMAN’s flagship Digital Cockpit technologies under a centralized compute design.<\/p>\n
The company said that the combination lays the groundwork for future central computing solutions that provide safety, automated and assisted driving, and user experiences on a common platform. By simplifying system design, lowering integration complexity, and fostering more effective innovation cycles, HARMAN enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to scale unique, context-aware car experiences.<\/p>\n
“With this agreement, we take a strategic step to expand our portfolio with complementary ADAS capabilities that unlock a new class of cross-domain experiences ranging from perception-informed audio cues to more personalized, situation-aware driving,” said Harman CEO Christian Sobottka.<\/p>\n
“Combined with HARMAN\u2019s long-standing automotive expertise and supported by Samsung\u2019s broader technology leadership, this positions us to help OEMs design the next generation of intelligent, empathetic and connected vehicles,” Sobottka added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mucahithan Avcioglu 23 December 2025\u2022Update: 23 December 2025 ISTANBUL Samsung Electronics announced on Tuesday that it will acquire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1823,5549,6486,127,276,223,6485],"class_list":{"0":"post-8340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-samsung","8":"tag-acquisition","9":"tag-adas","10":"tag-autonomous-driving","11":"tag-samsung","12":"tag-samsung-electronics","13":"tag-samsung-group","14":"tag-sf-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}