Claims campus will be home to 'Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team'
Matthew Hughes
Wed 10 Mar 2021 // 19:59 UTC
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With an estimated opening date of late 2022, the 33,000m
2 facility will serve as Cupertino's largest wireless communications R&D facility, with a heavy emphasis placed on developing proprietary 5G chippery.
In a blog post, Apple said the facility will house "Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team."
It's a bold claim. Nokia's Oulu campus, which is home to its 5G radio design team, has a couple of thousand workers – although these are spread across manufacturing and research.
Still, even if it's not the greatest thing since sliced laugenbrötchen, it does allow Apple to consolidate much of its operations in the Bavarian capital, ongoing since 1981. In recent years, Apple's ranks have swelled following a spate of buyouts. The most notable is its $1bn acquisition of Intel's modem development wing in 2019, itself snatched from German semiconductor firm Infineon in 2011.