Benzinga | Apr 13, 2021 01:06PM EDT

National Instruments Joins ATIS's Next G Alliance For North American 6G Advancement

* National Instruments Corp (NASDAQ: NATI) has joined ATIS's Next G Alliance as a founding member to advance North American 6G mobile technology leadership by building on the evolution of 5G over the next ten years.

* The arrangement will involve identifying research priorities essential to the 6G growth, adjustment, manufacturing, and market readiness.

* NI will help identify research priorities and connect wireless researchers with integrated hardware and software technologies to fast-track engineering discovery.

* NI and the other Next G Alliance members' work was vital to the advancement of North American global leadership over the 5G evolutionary path and 6G development, ATIS CEO Susan Miller said.

* Price action: NATI shares traded lower by 1.90% at $43.90 on the last check Tuesday.