Altair Selected by u-blox to Power Single-Mode LTE Wireless Modules

“When benchmarking potential partners to build our LTE modules with, Altair’s offering was selected due to its unique combination of performance, maturity and cost,” said Thomas Nigg, Head of Product Marketing of u-blox. “The partnership between Altair and u-blox will produce LTE module products that will deliver highly differentiated 4G wireless modules to our customers.”

“We are excited to have been selected by u-blox, a proven leader in the wireless module industry, as their single-mode LTE chip partner,” said Eran Eshed, Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing of Altair. “Both companies share the vision of enabling a rapidly growing number of connected devices with high-performance LTE wireless modules – this partnership will take us one big step forward towards realizing this goal.”

u-blox modules based on Altair technology are expected to release commercially before the end of 2013.