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Originally Posted by southlight
That's quite interesting, the M-DCT is a collaboration between BMW and Getrag. Getrag does the "hardware", BMW itself develops the software part. 
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I would not go so far as to claim BMW will actually "develop" the software but clearly the software is a huge part of what will distinguish a DCT in one vehicle vs. another. DCT can me made mild or wild, depending on software. I suspect it is more likely they will work closely with Getrag to give a spec. for the software rather than actually be responsible for it directly. Surely the transmission software needs to be tightly integrated with the engine control software and other vehicle functions. The software may reside on a transmission specific computing hardware/controller or on BMWs "main CPU". It is really a "system integration" type of task. Who knows though how it will be accomplished, I'm not a BMW insider.