Enabling New Infotainment-Equipment Cost Structures With Open-System Architectures

The infotainment systems of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) recently have been subjected to increasing competition from the retrofitting solutions on the so-called aftermarket, for which there is at present no adequate response. A similar situation has always been the case with car radios, where retrofitted units have long had an obviously better price/performance ratio, not only in the low-price segment but even among very high-quality systems.