It became known that Apple intends to spend more than € 1 billion to create a new European Chip Development Center in Munich, Germany. On the territory of 30 thousand square meters, a division of the American company will be located, which will focus on the development of technologies and products for Apple products and integration of them with 5G networks. Money will be spent over the next three years.

Munich is already the largest Apple engineering center in Europe. About 4,000 employees and 1,500 engineers are working here to develop new chips for various Apple devices. In addition, Apple's Bavarian center is developing chips for the iPhone, iPad, iMac and Apple Watch.

Rumors inside company are that Germany is used because some of main LSI features are not fully compatible with... US laws. By making parts of design outside US allow top management to around some limitations (like secretly tracking US citizens and leaking their information) and openly tell that they do not know and have no idea.

5G parts will be also very important as specialized cores and firmware are always top secret and fully encrypted and by keeping it out of direct US reach Apple gains some leverage. As Us authorities will be forced to request information instead of using holes that are known to them without informing people responsible for such things in Apple.