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Company type | Public |
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SIX: UBXN | |
Industry | Semiconductors, Internet of Things (IoT) |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Thalwil, canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
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Number of employees | 850 (2025) [3] |
Website | www |
u-blox is a Swiss company that creates wireless semiconductors and modules for consumer, automotive and industrial markets. They operate as a fabless IC and design house. The company is listed at the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX:UBXN) and has offices in the US, Singapore, China, Taiwan (China), Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Australia, Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Greece.
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u-blox is a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) [4] [5] and was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Thalwil, Switzerland. Thomas Seiler served as chief executive officer of u-blox AG from 2002 until his retirement on Dec 31, 2022. Stephan Zizala, who joined the company in 2022, succeeded Seiler. [6]
In 2016, u-blox opened a new office in Taipei, Taiwan. [7]
In August 2025, private equity firm Advent International agreed to buy u-blox for $1.3 billion. [8]
u-blox provides starter kits which allow quick prototyping of variety of applications for the Internet of Things. [9] It develops and sells chips and modules that support global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including receivers for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS. [10] The wireless range consists of GSM-, UMTS- and CDMA2000 and LTE modules, as well as Bluetooth- and WiFi-modules. All these products enable the delivery of complete systems for location-based services and M2M applications (machine-to-machine communication) in the Internet of Things, that rely on the convergence of 2G/3G/4G, Bluetooth-, Wi-Fi technology and satellite navigation. [11] A collaboration to create GNSS receiver that work globally was started between u-blox, SoftBank and ALES in 2021. [12] One year later, in 2022, u-blox released the at the time smallest LTE Cat 4 Module LARA-L6. [13] The company launched a dual-band GNSS module in 2023 that uses the L1 as well as the L5 GPS frequency bands. [14] In 2024 u-blox released the LEXI-R10, which was, according to the company, the smallest LTE Cat 1bis module at time of launch. [15] [16]
They acquired a dozen companies after their IPO in 2007, after acquiring connectblue [17] in 2014 and Lesswire in 2015 [18] they acquired Rigado's module business in 2019. [19] In 2020, u-blox acquired Thingstream. [20] In 2021, u-blox AG acquired Sapcorda Services GmbH, a provider of high precision GNSS (global navigation satellite system) services. [21] and Naventik GmbH, a German company specializing in the development of safe positioning solutions for autonomous driving. [22]