Harman to acquire ZF’s ADAS business

David Leggett

Tue, December 23, 2025 astatine 4:42 AM CST 3 min read

Samsung-owned Harman has announced that it has entered into a definitive statement to get the ZF Group’s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) business, which comprises automotive compute solutions, astute cameras, radars and ADAS bundle functions. The transaction is valued astatine €1.5 billion.

With the integration of ZF ADAS, Harman says its cardinal automotive level volition beryllium amended acceptable up to powerfulness the in-car safety, quality and experiences of an progressively software-defined conveyance (SDV) era.

It says the cardinal benefits are:

• An acceleration of Harman’s experience-driven roadmap by unifying safety, comfort, perception, quality and in-cabin systems into 1 level for OEMs.

• Future-oriented ADAS: ZF’s ADAS capabilities deepen Harman’s quality to present intelligent, connected, safety-driven in-vehicle experiences.

• Unlocking worth for OEMs. Harman maintains the integration supports faster innovation cycles, reduced strategy complexity and a unified computing instauration that allows automakers to ‘deliver smarter, safer and much human-centric vehicles astatine scale’.

As automakers accelerate towards software-defined vehicles (SDV), Harman says this attack enables experiences that seamlessly link information and assisted driving functions with comfort, connectivity, and in-vehicle intelligence. Moreover, Harman says the acquisition secures strategical inroads successful the ADAS and cardinal compute platforms markets, reinforcing a instauration that anchors and advances its relation successful the fast-growing SDV market.

It volition besides let the integration of ZF’s ADAS capabilities with Harman's flagship Digital Cockpit offerings wrong a centralised compute design.

“The manufacture is astatine an inflection constituent wherever safety, intelligence, and in-cabin acquisition indispensable travel unneurotic done a unified computing architecture,” said Christian Sobottka, Chief Executive Officer and President, Automotive Division, Harman. “With this agreement, we instrumentality a strategical measurement to grow our portfolio with complementary ADAS capabilities that unlock a caller people of cross-domain experiences ranging from perception-informed audio cues to much personalised, situation-aware driving. Combined with Harman’s long-standing automotive expertise and supported by Samsung’s broader exertion leadership, this positions america to assistance OEMs plan the adjacent procreation of intelligent, empathetic, and connected vehicles.”

“With Harman, we person recovered the perfect spouse to afloat unlock the maturation and innovation imaginable of our ADAS business,” said Mathias Miedreich, CEO of ZF Group. “At the aforesaid time, this woody makes an important publication to reducing our company’s indebtedness and allows america to absorption our resources connected the halfway technologies successful which ZF is simply a planetary leader.”