Discussion

• @atbwebb Alex Webb on x

  Apple's €1b investment in a Munich chip design centre seems mostly to be about consolidating its existing staff there on one site. In recent years it's acquired several thousand employees from Intel (originally the Infineon unit), Dialog and Metaio in that part of the world. 1/

• @atbwebb Alex Webb on x

  Doesn't hurt that you're also on the doorstep of BMW, Audi and, slightly further afield, Daimler and Bosch. It's fertile hunting ground for automotive engineers when you're revving that project up again. Lyft has also set up an autonomous driving R&D lab in Munich, fwiw. 2/

• @atbwebb Alex Webb on x

  This all comes with the halo effect of being seen to invest in Europe as antitrust debates trundle on. And industry commissioner Thierry Breton is super-keen on fostering a homegrown semiconductor industry, as @nat_droz & @aoifewhite101 covered yday. 3/ https://www.bloomberg.com/…

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  “Tech sovereignty” https://www.apple.com/...

• @fosspatents Florian Mueller on x

  Apple's new Munich office (a) won't make patent injunctions in the same city less likely; the judges there would even enjoin a local company like BMW without hesitation; and (b) may have a very *modest* effect on Apple's political clout in Brussels and Berlin. https://twitter.com…

• @sam_l_shead Sam Shead on x

  NEW: Apple is setting up a new facility in Munich to focus on 5G and future wireless technologies as part of a 1 billion euro investment in Germany https://www.apple.com/...