Automotive system development project was approved by an independent expert committee and confirmed by the "Skolkovo Fund" in June 2012. At the same time, Intel announced the opening in Russia of a new R&D center.
The General Director of Intel Software, Igor Kaloshin, told reporters that the Intel hardware and software solution codenamed Russian Hill includes functions such as navigation, radio, a media player, a telephone application, a calendar, a browser, an application for communication in social networks, voice control and integration with the infrastructure services.
He noted that the first prototypes of trucks with such a system would be showcased in September at the Comtrans 2013 exhibition.
The director of the KAMAZ engineering center, Vladimir Kulemin, said the new KAMAZ model with intelligent systems would appear no earlier than 2016. "We need at least three years, actually about five years. … Making a prototype can be fast, but it is necessary that the system was properly certified," he said.
Intel proposed an open platform — specially for Russia — around which an ecosystem of several partner companies quickly formed. KAMAZ allowed the project to move to a new level to the implementation of development, having proved the existence of a serious potential for interaction between Russian and multinational partners and also the effectiveness of the model of the Skolkovo Fund Innovation Center, said the executive director of the information technology cluster of the Skolkovo Fund, Igor Bogachev.