At CES 2025, Karma Automotive Joins Intel Automotive to Demonstrate How Software Defined Vehicle Architecture (SDVA) Maximizes Powertrain Performance and Efficiency

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Karma Automotive and Intel Automotive are advancing their collaboration on Software Defined Vehicle Architecture (SDVA), with plans to showcase their progress at CES 2025. The partnership focuses on demonstrating powertrain performance and range efficiency improvements through SDVA technology.

The collaboration will first manifest in the 2026 Karma Kaveya super-coupe, a 1,000HP+ vehicle. At CES, Karma will display an Intel co-branded inverter featuring Optimal Pulse Pattern programming for improved EMotor efficiency. The demonstration will showcase four driving profiles with various performance metrics, including wheel torque, speed, power, and efficiency parameters.

The partnership aims to create an open ecosystem for SDVA, potentially benefiting the broader automotive industry through shared standards and improved software development practices.

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• Development of 1,000HP+ Karma Kaveya super-coupe for 2026 release
• Partnership with Intel Automotive for advanced SDVA technology implementation
• Creation of open ecosystem standards that could lead to industry-wide adoption

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Tech Expert

Intel and Karma's SDVA collaboration demonstrates an important shift in automotive software architecture, but the timing (CES 2025) and nature of this announcement (future demonstration) classify this as not immediately market-moving for Intel. The technical aspects - including the optimization of EV powertrain efficiency through software-defined architecture and AI-enhanced computing - are innovative, but lack concrete financial or production metrics. The promised integration into Karma's 2026 Kaveya represents a long-term strategic initiative rather than a near-term revenue driver for Intel.

While the partnership showcases Intel's growing presence in the automotive sector and its advancement in EV-specific computing solutions, the collaboration with a relatively small player like Karma Automotive limits the immediate market impact. The open ecosystem approach could potentially lead to broader industry adoption, but such developments would materialize over years rather than quarters.

Together with Intel Automotive, Karma is Creating an Open Ecosystem for SDVA, Transforming Software Development Practices to Benefit the Entire Industry

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this year, Karma Automotive announced its bilateral collaboration with Intel Automotive to co-develop SDVA (Software Defined Vehicle Architecture) which will underpin its upcoming vehicles starting with the 2026 Karma Kaveya super-coupe, and to demonstrate and validate critical concepts for the advancement of open standards for SDVA that can be shared openly and commercially to support the transformation of the broader automotive industry.

Now this collaboration takes a significant step forward as Karma Automotive joins Intel Automotive at CES 2025 to demonstrate one of multiple ways Karma vehicles will benefit from SDVA: powertrain performance and range efficiency. In addition to this SDVA powertrain demonstration, Karma Automotive President, Marques McCammon will be among speakers joining onstage as Jack Weast, Intel Fellow and Vice President of Intel Automotive, showcases how Intel's unique combination of AI-enhanced high-performance compute, intelligent power management and software-defined zonal controllers built on an open ecosystem enables a more sustainable, scalable and profitable automotive future.

"Developed in bilateral partnership with Intel Automotive, Karma Automotive's SDVA technology will be a gamechanger for our vehicles starting with the 1,000HP+ Karma Kaveya due in 2026, offering unbeatable advantages across a wide range of fronts including computing speed and power, upgradeable functionalities and vehicle connectivity, ease of manufacture, vehicle safety, and, as we're demonstrating at CES, powertrain performance and efficiency," says Marques McCammon, President, Karma Automotive. "SDVA will transform the Karma vehicle experience, and by creating an open ecosystem for SDVA together with Intel Automotive, we'll transform software development practices to benefit the entire industry."       

Within Intel Automotive's presence at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Karma will show its Intel co-branded inverter – the device converts a direct current (DC) supply from the vehicle's batteries into an alternating current (AC) – which will incorporate Optimal Pulse Pattern programming to control the vehicle's EMotors to improve efficiency. A simulated dyno test will demonstrate 4 driving profiles – Highway, City, Park, and Charge – illustrating wheel torque (NM), wheel speed (RPM), power (W), and efficiency (%) achieved through Torque Ripple Reduction and Range Boost parameters managing powertrain and energy telemetry. Energy savings (Wh) and range increase (Km) achieved through these processes will also be displayed. Renderings of Intel Automotive's technology aboard the Karma Kaveya super-coupe details locations of the E-motors and inverters, batteries, wiring, select Zonal controllers (ZC) and High Performance Computers(HPC).

About Karma Automotive

Karma Automotive is America's only full-line ultra-luxury vehicle manufacturer, and a pioneer of EREV (Extended Range Electric) vehicles which it manufactures at its Karma Innovation and Customization Center (KICC) in Moreno Valley, CA. Its Executive, Product Development, and Design headquarters are located in nearby Irvine, CA. The Karma portfolio embodies California's spirit of innovation and entrepreneurial boldness, reflected by the signature Comet Line which is the central hallmark of Karma's new design language. Sales of the 3^rd Generation Karma Revero sport sedan, the world's first luxury EREV plug-in hybrid, are now underway in the USA and EU, offering luxury balanced with conscientiousness delivered without compromise. Sales of Revero's ultra-exclusive, performance-tuned stablemate, Karma Invictus, will begin in Q1 2025, followed by the Gyesera four-seater in Q4 2025.  The Karma Kaveya super-coupe, with up to 1,000HP and butterfly-doors, will arrive in Q4 2026, incorporating SDVA (Software-Defined Vehicle Architecture) developed in collaboration with Intel Automotive. Further, Karma Automotive will provide Tier 1's and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) with business-to-business SDVA solutions, as it does today with Karma Connect, its proprietary Vehicle Data Management and Over-the-Air services platform, which presently provides services to the world's second largest OEM. Karma Automotive's dealer network spans North America, Europe, South America and the Middle East. (www.karmaautomotive.com) 

About Intel

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore's Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers' greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel's innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries.  Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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FAQ

What is the expected release date for Karma's SDVA-equipped Kaveya super-coupe (INTC)?

The Karma Kaveya super-coupe, featuring SDVA technology developed with Intel Automotive, is scheduled for release in 2026.

How much horsepower will the new Karma Kaveya have with Intel's SDVA technology?

The 2026 Karma Kaveya super-coupe will deliver over 1,000 horsepower using Intel's SDVA technology.

What driving profiles will be demonstrated in Karma's CES 2025 INTC partnership showcase?

The CES 2025 demonstration will showcase four driving profiles: Highway, City, Park, and Charge, displaying various performance metrics.

How will Intel's SDVA technology improve Karma's vehicle performance?

Intel's SDVA technology will improve computing speed, power, upgradeable functionalities, vehicle connectivity, ease of manufacture, vehicle safety, and powertrain performance and efficiency.