u-blox is a Swiss company that creates wireless semiconductors and modules for consumer, automotive and industrial markets.

u-blox is a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)[3][4] and was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Thalwil, Switzerland.

[7] It develops and sells chips and modules that support global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), including receivers for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and QZSS.

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.

[19] and Naventik GmbH, a German company specializing in the development of safe positioning solutions for autonomous driving.