Sequans Communications S.A. and Socle Technology Corp. have announced a strategic partnership to address the global market for the LTE-enabled Internet of Things, or IoT. The purpose of the partnership is to bring to market specialized and highly integrated system-on-chip (SoC) LTE solutions to address the wide range of IoT/M2M appications that require wireless LTE connectivity.

With Sequans' leading LTE technology and Socle's SoC expertise and rich IP portfolio, the two parties will develop a family of LTE SoC solutions meeting the low power, low cost, processing, and interface requirements of a wide variety of M2M and IoT applications. The resulting solutions will be used by Sequans to expand its StreamliteLTE family of chipset products and by Foxconn to serve their IoT customers. The first product is expected to sample in 2016.