总部设在瑞士U-blox公司创建于1997年，成立之初，还只是苏黎世大学的一家校办工厂，由苏黎世大学的几个教授和曾担任德国戴姆勒-奔驰汽车公司CEO的Edzard Reuter先生合资。

U-blox公司通过使用其他厂商的GPS芯片设计生产GPS模块的方式打入GPS行业，主攻车载GPS市场。小有成就之后，U-blox开始涉足芯片设计。此后和Atmel公司合作，U-blox公司提供GPS接收算法，Atmel则负责芯片的设计生产。这次合作使得U-blox成功转型为GPS芯片供应商，并采用自己的芯片继续生产GPS模块，在欧洲车载GPS市场获得巨大成功。当时的Atmel也非常看好U-blox，并考虑过收购U-blox，但当时由于价钱没谈拢，没有成功。转眼间U-blox已经成了一个壮汉，显然不再甘心芯片设计生产再受Atmel约制，开始自己设计芯片，2006成功推出U-blox 5系列芯片组，前瞻性地具备兼容美国GPS卫星系统和欧盟伽利略卫星系统引擎，数据刷新频率可小于1秒，50毫瓦的超低功耗和高达-160 dBm的SuperSense跟踪灵敏度等领先性能而终成霸业。U-blox在公司成立10年后的2007年成功在瑞士证券交易所上市。如今，U-blox在GPS行业如同一个标杆，是欧洲汽车GPS导航委员会及伽利略委员会委员,参与制定欧洲汽车GPS导航专业标准制定及修正。

在车载的传统优势市场，奔驰、宝马、法拉利、保时捷、奥迪、富豪等豪华车原装GPS前装市场，大多都采用U-blox第5代芯片。2008年后，U-blox5凭借其出色稳定的性能开始大举吞噬手持设备市场，车妈妈等车载后装GPS设备商、手持设备商也相续采用此芯片组，与SiRFⅢ平分秋色，占据了大部分的GPS芯片市场份额。

2009年9月U-BLOX宣布将自身的CMOS核心技术升级到U-BLOX 6平台。基于该平台的产品将具备智能化功率管理功能，功耗需求大幅降低。对于那些功耗具有至关重要意义的GPS应用，这些创新成果将显著延长电池寿命。新款芯片中捕获引擎的相关器数量拓展到两百万个以上，在提高微弱信号捕获能力的同时，缩短了首次定位时间。

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. Their wireless solutions connect machines, vehicles and people to locate their exact positions and communicate via short range (WI-FI, Bluetooth) or cellular networks. Using their portfolio of chips, modules or software solutions it’s possible to create subsystems and products to fulfill needs for the Internet of Things (IoT), M2M or Car2Car (or Vehicle to Vehicle) solutions quick and cost-effectively.

They acquired a dozen companies after their IPO in 2007, the last two acquisitions were connectblue in 2014 and Lesswire in 2015 

u-blox was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Thalwil, Switzerland. The company is listed at the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX:UBXN) and has offices in the USA, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Australia, Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Greece.

In April 2015 u-blox successfully issued a 60 Million CHF Bond. The bonds bear a 1.625% coupon and have a duration of 6 years. The bonds were placed with institutional and private investors in Switzerland under the lead management of Credit Suisse AG and with Zürcher Kantonalbank acting as a co-manager.

u-blox develops and sells chips and modules that support global satellite navigation systems (GNSS), including receivers for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo_(satellite_navigation), BeiDou and QZSS. 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.

u-blox provides starter kits which allow quick prototyping of variety of applications for the Internet of Things.

On 20th January 2017 u-blox announced an asset deal with Shanghai-based SimTech Group Company Ltd. that will give u-blox control over the company’s cellular modem products (known as SIMCom Wireless), patents and know-how, R&D and sales staff, and customer base.