For a new independent vehicle testing center point more than quite a long while, Canada's BlackBerry Ltd plans to contribute C$100 million ($75 million or generally Rs. 508 crores). The organization's CEO said on Monday, as the fallen smartphone pioneer searches somewhere else for development.

John Chen told columnists at the Ottawa-territory central station of its BlackBerry QNX auxiliary, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next to him. The vast majority of the cash will go to engineering occupations, perhaps hundreds in coming years.

The organization, which is hustling to expand programming deals as its handset unit and related legacy benefit get to expenses contract, plans to make itself irreplaceable in the car business' approaching self-driving arms race. IDC's buyer versatility expert Brian Haven said that "One could make the argument that QNX is the strongest asset in their portfolio right now, so it's refreshing to see this investment,". He additionally said that scaling the business and managing rivals with more cash to toss at self-governing driving activities would challenge for the organization.

David Masson, Canada nation administrator at cybersecurity firm Darktrace said that It will require significant cooperation between all those involved to be sure that the end product and its communication configuration is both safe and secure for the individuals that use them and those sharing the road,". BlackBerry is trusting its security and wellbeing qualifications help it win a seat at the table as a variety of automakers, chip and sensor suppliers and programming designers work in focused co-operation to convey self-driving autos to the mass market.

BlackBerry welcome more organizations to its Ottawa office and will at first work with middleware provider PolySync and semiconductor organization Renesas Electronics Corp, and additionally its main residence the University of Waterloo on its self-governing driving venture.

BlackBerry confronts various aggressive threats, including from free installed working framework maker Green Hills Software and additionally chipmakers, for example, Intel.