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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| SIX: UBXN | |
| Industry | Semiconductors,Internet of Things (IoT) |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Thalwil,canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
Key people |
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| Revenue |  SFr 262.9 million (2021)[1] |
| SFr 121.8 million (2021)[2] | |
| SFr 101.8 million (2021)[2] | |
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 afablessIC and design house. The company originated as a spin-off from ETH Zurich and was founded in 1997.
Listed at theSwiss Stock Exchange (SIX:UBXN), it has offices in theUS,Singapore,China,Taiwan,Korea,Japan,India,Pakistan,Australia,Ireland, theUK,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,Finland,Italy andGreece.
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]
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Based inThalwil,Switzerland, u-blox is a spin-off of theSwiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)[6][7] and was founded in 1997. Thomas Seiler served as CEO for two decades until his retirement on December 31, 2022, when his position was taken over by Stephan Zizala.[8]
In 2016, the company opened a new office inTaipei, Taiwan.[9] On November 26, 2025, three months after agreeing to buy it for $1.3 billion,[10] it was announced that the private equity firmAdvent 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]
u-blox develops and sells chips and modules that support global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including receivers forGPS,GLONASS,Galileo,BeiDou andQZSS.[14] The wireless range consists ofGSM-,UMTS- andCDMA2000 andLTE modules, as well asBluetooth- andWiFi-modules. All these products enable the delivery of complete systems for location-based services andM2M applications (machine-to-machine communication) in theInternet 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 L5GPS 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]
They acquired a dozen companies after theirIPO 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]
