Manzana has announced the $1 billion investment in expansion of its research and development center in Munich (Germany). It is approximately the same amount that he invested in his day in the construction of the facilities that the center currently has, two years ago. These new facilities will be located next to the first ones.
They will be a little north of the center of Munich, on Seidlstrasse. Both centers will be separated by only one street. Before announcing the expansion of these facilities, which are already in operation, the center was already the largest Apple has in R&D in Europe. With this extension it will practically double its extension.
The expansion of its facilities in Munich is designed so that all the company’s engineers who work in the area do so from the same plant. In this way, as they think about Apple, they will gain in efficiency. His tasks at the new plant, when it is ready, will focus on custom chip design, power management chip design and future wireless technologies.
In view of this, the ultimate goal of this chip research and development center seems to be to improve the performance of Apple devices, as well as their energy efficiency. Also getting the company’s equipment to consume less energy.
As highlighted Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, in a statement announcing the new investment, its Munich engineering teams “are on the cutting edge of innovation and helping to imagine new technologies at the heart of the products we make. Apple has been in Munich for over 40 years, and has never been more expectant of what the future will bring there.”
Johny Srouji, Apple’s vice president of hardware technologieshas also highlighted that «Research and development teams in Munich are critical to our efforts to develop products with higher performance, efficiency, and energy savings. The expansion of our European Chip Design Center will enable even closer collaboration between our 2,000 engineers in Bavaria working on cutting-edge innovations.«.
In addition to the new building that Apple is going to build on Seidlstrasse, Apple’s R&D teams will occupy several spaces dedicated to research and development that are already being launched in other parts of Munich: Denisstrasse and Marsstrasse.
