Cork, Ireland â€" August 5, 2013 â€" Swiss-based uâ€'blox (SIX:UBXN), a leading provider of wireless and GPS/GNSS semiconductor components, announces the opening of an LTE RF (Radio Frequency) design center in Cork, Ireland. It is the company’s fourth R&D center focusing on chip design for embedded 4G wireless communications.


The new center complements u-blox’ 4G/LTE baseband design activities located in Thalwil, Switzerland, Melbourn, UK and Leuven, Belgium.


“We anticipate a huge demand for LTE connectivity driven by next-generation applications that rely on machine-to-machine communications,†said Andreas Thiel, head of the wireless products development at uâ€'blox, “to achieve our goal of market leadership in this sector, we have invested in Cork, a city renowned for its high concentration of engineering talent, especially in the area of signal processing. We welcome our new team of industry-leading RF specialistsâ€


The new office, already staffed and operational, will celebrate its grand opening on August 7, 2013. uâ€'blox will invest one million dollars in the new facility, and expand its headcount to 25.

u-blox now has R&D centers focusing on all aspects of 4G/LTE communications. The program will result in off-the-shelf LTE chips and modules serving the automotive, industrial and consumer markets.


u-blox now has direct presence in 15 countries, including 9 R&D centers specializing in integrated circuits and modules used for embedded cellular communications and satellite positioning.



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