eRide Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that
develops and markets high-sensitivity autonomous and assisted Global
Positioning System (GPS) based devices and software for Location Based
Services, announced today the expansion of it worldwide operation with
the opening of three new offices in Asia and Europe. Located
respectively in Tokyo, Japan, Seoul, Korea and Munich Germany, these
offices will play a key role in bringing eRide's HS-GPS / A-GPS
products locally to worldwide markets and making eRide's technology
more globally ubiquitous.
"Japan, with innovative location based solutions in Car navigation, PDAs and Cellular Phones is one of the first and largest GPS market for consumer applications and is strategic to the deployment of eRide's technology," said Jose Briceno, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Dr. Briceno will head the Tokyo office, which along with the Korean office will allow eRide Asia to aggressively pursue its rollout of eRide's products to the Asian OEMs, ODMs and CMs.
"Germany, with the advent of Galileo and the presence of many respectable automotive makers, has enormous market potential and strategic value," said Jens Bodenkamp, Managing Director, eRide Europe. Bodenkamp will lead a development team in the Munich office which will focus on the development of a GPS - Galileo dual mode receiver as well as support European customers.
"This latest expansion of eRide's operations is the logical next step to roll-out our product offering worldwide while providing local support to customers and taking our location based technology to the next level," said Arthur Woo, President and CEO of eRide. eRide is now aggressively staffing its new offices with sales and field application engineers.
About eRide:
eRide is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets high sensitivity GPS and assisted GPS (A-GPS) solutions for location based services. eRide combines its GPS system expertise with RF and digital semiconductor to offer semiconductor IP, chipsets, software, aiding servers and a GPS global reference networks. eRide's technology has been adopted by a broad base of leading customers including semiconductor companies, high volume mobile consumer devices manufacturers and cellular network operators. Founded in 1999, eRide is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has offices in North America, Asia and Europe. For further information please visit our website at www.eride.com. -0- Offices addresses: USA: eRide Headquarters, 3450 California Street, San Francisco, California, USA Tel: (415) 359-9500 Japan: eRide Asia Pacific limited, Sumitomo Mita Bldg. 1F, Shiba 5-37-8, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014, Japan Tel: (81) 3 5730-7880 Korea: eRide Korea Co, Ltd. #601, Bethel B/D., 324-1, Yanjae-Dong, Seocho-ku, Seoul, 137-897, Korea Tel: (82) 2 577-9151 Germany: eRide Europe GmbH, Ismaninger Strasse 17 - 19, D-81675, Munchen, Germany Tel: (49) 89 4130-0051
"Japan, with innovative location based solutions in Car navigation, PDAs and Cellular Phones is one of the first and largest GPS market for consumer applications and is strategic to the deployment of eRide's technology," said Jose Briceno, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Dr. Briceno will head the Tokyo office, which along with the Korean office will allow eRide Asia to aggressively pursue its rollout of eRide's products to the Asian OEMs, ODMs and CMs.
"Germany, with the advent of Galileo and the presence of many respectable automotive makers, has enormous market potential and strategic value," said Jens Bodenkamp, Managing Director, eRide Europe. Bodenkamp will lead a development team in the Munich office which will focus on the development of a GPS - Galileo dual mode receiver as well as support European customers.
"This latest expansion of eRide's operations is the logical next step to roll-out our product offering worldwide while providing local support to customers and taking our location based technology to the next level," said Arthur Woo, President and CEO of eRide. eRide is now aggressively staffing its new offices with sales and field application engineers.
About eRide:
eRide is a fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets high sensitivity GPS and assisted GPS (A-GPS) solutions for location based services. eRide combines its GPS system expertise with RF and digital semiconductor to offer semiconductor IP, chipsets, software, aiding servers and a GPS global reference networks. eRide's technology has been adopted by a broad base of leading customers including semiconductor companies, high volume mobile consumer devices manufacturers and cellular network operators. Founded in 1999, eRide is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has offices in North America, Asia and Europe. For further information please visit our website at www.eride.com. -0- Offices addresses: USA: eRide Headquarters, 3450 California Street, San Francisco, California, USA Tel: (415) 359-9500 Japan: eRide Asia Pacific limited, Sumitomo Mita Bldg. 1F, Shiba 5-37-8, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014, Japan Tel: (81) 3 5730-7880 Korea: eRide Korea Co, Ltd. #601, Bethel B/D., 324-1, Yanjae-Dong, Seocho-ku, Seoul, 137-897, Korea Tel: (82) 2 577-9151 Germany: eRide Europe GmbH, Ismaninger Strasse 17 - 19, D-81675, Munchen, Germany Tel: (49) 89 4130-0051