Apple has said it intends to invest $1.2bn (€1bn) over the next three years to expand its team in the German city and increase the necessary research and development facilities in what will be known as the 'European Silicon Design Centre'.
Munich is already Apple’s largest engineering hub in Europe, with around 1,500 engineers from 40 countries working in areas including power management design, application processors and wireless technologies. Apple's headquarters is the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
The new Munich facility will be home to Apple’s growing cellular unit, Europe’s largest R&D site for mobile wireless semiconductors and software, Apple said in a statement, adding that the team would focus on 5G and other wireless technologies.
The aim of the European Silicon Design Centre is to facilitate tighter integration of the hardware and software engineering in Apple products so as to better exploit the potential of...