SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 28 January 2019 -Multinational automotive electronics innovator Desay SV Automotive (Desay SV)plans to establish new R&D teams to develop frontier technologies in Level4 and Level 5 vehicle autonomy and automotive cybersecurity exclusively inSingapore.

Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the R&D presence will augmentDesay SV's Automotive VehicleTechnologies (AVT) and AdvancedDevelopment (AD) divisions located at ICON@IBP, Singapore. No other DesaySV R&D teams outside Singapore will be developing the two streams offrontier automotive technologies.

• AVT in Singapore is slated to be DesaySV's sole global upstream R&D Centre to develop and prototype newtechnologies for fully autonomous Level 4 driverless vehicles (that can perform allsafety-critical driving functions and monitor road conditions for an entiretrip within a controlled geofenced area called an 'operational design domain'or ODD), and for sentient Level 5vehicles (that can self-drive anywhere within or outside an ODD). These newtechnologies will be adapted and incorporated--at Desay SV's headquarters inHuizhou, Guangdong, China--into new commercial products with current Level 2chip-controlled autonomy (that takes over specific functions from a humandriver) to Level 4 vehicle autonomy.

• AD in Singapore will seek and developnext-generation technologies to augment Desay SV's in-vehicle products, as wellas become Desay SV's only AD team globally to focus on three competencies:cyber-physical system security (CSS), in-vehicle network (IVN) and wirelessmultimedia communications (WMC).

Desay SVintends to develop manpower and capabilities in Singapore relating to AVT andautomotive cybersecurity by hiring and training up to 46 local ResearchScientists & Engineers for its AVT and AD teams, and forming collaborativealliances with local research organisations such as its recent researchpartnership with NanyangTechnological University, Singapore.

Mr Azmoon Ahmad, Senior Vice-President and Member of DesaySV's Executive Management   responsible for Desay SV Singapore, envisagesthat the partnership will create exciting new innovations that strengthen theroadworthiness and cybersecurity of autonomous vehicles, as well as to buildlocal resources and capabilities.

"This is a significantmilestone in the long and fruitful partnership between Desay SV China andSingapore. Desay SV's first R&D collaboration with Singapore was for apremium car audio platform more than 30 years ago, and in 2012, Desay SV choseSingapore as the location of its first overseas R&D Centre. The highcalibre of local talent has added a lot of value to our multinational business,and we plan to leverage more of the same." - Azmoon Ahmad, Senior Vice-President &Member of Executive Management, Huizhou Desay SV Automotive and ManagingDirector, Desay SV Automotive Singapore

Mr Tan KongHwee, the Executive Director of Mobility from the Singapore EconomicDevelopment Board (EDB) welcomes this initiative.  "The expansion of Desay SV's R&D footprint in Singapore is testamentto our budding mobility sector. We look forward to being a part of Desay SV's plans to developautonomous vehicle and automotive cybersecurity technologies in Singapore totarget growing markets in Asia."  - Tan Kong Hwee, Executive Director, Mobility,EDB

ABOUT DESAYSV - Desay SV Automotive is China's leading automotive electronics company withmore than 30 years' track record and SGD$1.2 billion annual turnover resultingfrom its successful research, development, and manufacturing of in-vehicleinfotainment systems, in-vehicle climatic controllers, digital instrumentdisplay, and automotive vehicle technologies. Formerly a Sino-German jointventure, today it operates five R&D centres and two production plants inChina, Europe, Japan, and Singapore with a collective workforce of over 4,000employees. Headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, it has establishedlong-term partnerships with leading vehicle manufacturers including Volkswagen,Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Honda, Volvo, Caterpillar, Great Wall Motors, and Chery.For more information, please visit www.desaysv.com, connect with Desay SV Automotive on LinkedIn, ortalk to our Media Representative.