Apple Expands Its Silicon Design Center In Germany
Apple has announced an additional 1 billion euros investment in German engineers over the next six years. The investment is part of Apple's Silicon Design Centre expansion in Munich, Germany. Apple established Munich as the headquarters of its new European Silicon Design Centre in 2021, making it Apple's largest engineering hub in Europe. The expansion of Apple's European Silicon Design Centre will enable even closer collaboration between Apple's more than 2,000 engineers in Bavaria working on breakthrough innovations, including custom silicon designs, power management chips, and future wireless technologies.
The investment will include the design and construction of a state-of-the-art research facility at Seidlstrasse with significant lab space and cutting-edge design to enhance collaboration and innovation. In addition, teams will occupy several additional R&D spaces at Denisstrasse and Marsstrasse as part of the Silicon Design Centre expansion. The three new sites are located across the street from Apple's recently opened R&D facility at Karlstrasse, creating a hub of invention and innovation in the center of Munich. Together with engineering sites at Arnulfstrasse and Hackerbrücke, the new facilities form Apple's European Silicon Design Centre, centrally located in Munich's Maxvorstadt neighborhood.
Apple's Munich-based teams have contributed to the breakthrough custom silicon designs used in the latest Apple products, including the all-new MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max, Apple's next-generation Mac silicon that brings even more power-efficient performance and battery life to users everywhere.
Germany's thriving iOS app economy now supports more than 400,000 jobs, and developers across Germany have earned more than 3 billion euros from their apps selling digital goods and services to customers around the world. The App Store Foundations Program has reached more than 250 German developers with one-on-one support for app development, marketing, and business planning in collaboration with Apple experts.
Apple's employees support various local community-based organizations and charities in Germany, with Apple matching every hour an employee volunteers or euro they donate with a monetary donation to the same organization through the Employee Giving program. Since the program's inception in 2011, Apple employees have raised nearly 830 million euros in total donations globally — and have volunteered more than 2 million hours — for organizations such as the Munich Ambulant Children's Hospice Foundation, Tafel Munich, Bavarian Red Cross, and Munich-based mentoring initiative Rock Your Life!.
