u-blox is a Swiss company that creates wireless semiconductors and modules for consumer, automotive and industrial markets. They operate as a fablessIC and design house. The company originated as a spin-off from ETH Zurich and was founded in 1997.
In 2025, private equity firm Advent International agreed to acquire u-blox via a public tender offer, and later announced completion of the transaction.[4][5]
In 2016, the company opened a new office in Taipei, Taiwan.[9] On November 26, 2025, three months after agreeing to buy it for $1.3billion,[10] it was announced that the private equity firm Advent International had completed the acquisition of the company.[11]
u-blox listed its shares on the SWX Swiss Exchange (now SIX Swiss Exchange) in October 2007.[12][13]
Products and technology
u-blox develops and sells chips and modules that support global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including receivers for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS.[14] 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.[15] A collaboration to create GNSS receiver that work globally was started between u-blox, SoftBank and ALES in 2021.[16] One year later, in 2022, u-blox released the at the time smallest LTE Cat 4 Module LARA-L6.[17] The company launched a dual-band GNSS module in 2023 that uses the L1 as well as the L5 GPS frequency bands.[18] In 2024 u-blox released the LEXI-R10, which was, according to the company, the smallest LTE Cat 1bis module at time of launch.[19][20]
Acquisitions
They acquired a dozen companies after their IPO in 2007, after acquiring connectblue[21] in 2014 and Lesswire in 2015 [22] they acquired Rigado's module business in 2019.[23] In 2020, u-blox acquired Thingstream.[24] In 2021, u-blox AG acquired Sapcorda Services GmbH, a provider of high precision GNSS (global navigation satellite system) services.[25] and Naventik GmbH, a German company specializing in the development of safe positioning solutions for autonomous driving.[26]
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