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QNX Everywhere Expands Global Developer Ecosystem Through Education, Innovation, and Open Collaboration
With 12,000+ licenses issued, more than 100 academic partnerships, and a surge in open-source inn...
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[{"type":"text","content":"QNX Everywhere Expands Global Developer Ecosystem Through Education, Innovation, and Open CollaborationWith 12,000+ licenses issued, more than 100 academic partnerships, and a surge in open-source innovation, QNX Everywhere is empowering the next generation of embedded systems developers LAS VEGAS, NEVADA / ACCESS Newswire / January 6, 2026 / QNX, a division of BlackBerry Ltd (NYSE:BB)(TSX:BB), today announced its QNX Everywhere initiative - launched at CES 2025 to democratize non-commercial access to its QNX® Software Development Platform (SDP) 8.0 - has rapidly become a go-to platform for embedded developers across the globe. More than 12,000 non-commercial licenses have been issued and the business has rapidly expanded its presence in academia, signing 80 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with universities across India and striking collaborative agreements with many prominent institutions in North America, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), while engaging with more than 6,000 students as part of a concerted push to integrate QNX's foundational tools and technologies directly into engineering curricula.QNX's commitment to continuous learningQNX Everywhere provides free access to QNX SDP 8.0 and QNX Hypervisor 8.0 for non-commercial use and aims to empower a broader developer community to explore, experiment, and build software with the same tools used in safety-critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, robotics, medical devices, and beyond. In tandem, the initiative seeks to address the growing global shortage of skilled embedded engineers; as industries shift toward software-defined architectures, the demand for talent capable of building safe, reliable, and real-time systems is outpacing supply.\"Using QNX in our student projects provides us an opportunity to utilize an industrial quality real-time operating system in use by many leading companies,\" said Dr. Gregory Long, Lecturer and Founding Lead Instructor at MIT New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET). \"By using QNX we hope to provide our students additional leverage in their quest towards deploying high performing robotic systems.\"To complement this initiative, QNX has also launched free online training courses designed to empower developers across all experience levels with high-quality, accessible education in ...