LG Electronics stock soared after debuting a Google-powered in-car software system

The South Korean company unveiled an Android Automotive OS platform that controls multiple vehicle displays from a single chip

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LG Electronics announced a new in-vehicle software platform built on Google $GOOGL's Android Automotive OS, sending LG Electronics stock up as much as 23.95% in Seoul trading.

Rather than dedicating separate hardware to each screen, the platform uses one system-on-chip to drive multiple in-car displays of different sizes — a departure from conventional multi-display architectures — and it operates on Qualcomm $QCOM hardware. Deploying multi-display cabin setups becomes less........

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