A three-story office building on the former Spaten Brewery site. The building is scheduled to be occupied at the end of 2022. Apple will invest over one billion euros in the location in Germany in the next three years and employ approximately 1500 employees. (picture alliance / dpa)
Apple has announced it will invest more than 1 billion euros (1.19 billion dollars) in its German development sites over the next three years, especially in Bavaria.
The U.S. smartphone giant said that the existing research and development hubs in the Munich area are to be expanded into Apple's European Silicon Design Centre.
Apple acquired the mobile modem division of chip giant Intel in the summer of 2019 and has since expanded its labs in the Munich area to become Apple's largest development centre in Europe.
According to the California-based company, almost 1,500 engineers from 40 countries now work there in the field of power management design. About half of Apple's global power management design team is located in Germany, the firm said.
This technology ensures that every part of a device is supplied with the right amount of energy at every moment. Its experts in Munich also work on application processors, wireless technologies and other areas.
The expansion reflects Apple's move away from using processor chips made by outside companies towards instead designing its own semiconductors.
Apple explained its move by saying that the Bavarian sites provided industry-leading performance and high efficiency.
"I couldn't be more excited for everything our Munich engineering teams will discover: from exploring the new frontiers of 5G technology, to a new generation of technologies that bring power, speed, and connectivity to the world," Apple boss Tim Cook said.
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