HARMAN International has announced an agreement to acquire the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems business of ZF Group. The transaction is valued at 1.5 billion euros and is expected to close in the second half of 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.
The acquisition includes ZF’s automotive compute platforms smart cameras radars and ADAS software capabilities. HARMAN plans to integrate these assets into its centralized automotive electronics and digital cockpit roadmap. The move is intended to support the shift toward software defined vehicles by bringing assisted driving safety and in cabin experiences onto shared computing platforms.
HARMAN states that combining ZF’s ADAS technologies with its digital cockpit systems will help reduce system complexity and support more scalable vehicle architectures for automakers. This approach aims to enable closer integration between perception safety features and user facing experiences within vehicles.
As part of the agreement around three thousand seven hundred fifty ZF employees across Europe the Americas and Asia are expected to transition to HARMAN. Both companies will continue supporting existing customer programs while aligning engineering and product teams after the transaction closes.
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