Philip Houska In recent days, Apple bought a building in the north of the Californian city of San Jose with a size of less than 18,2 thousand square meters for 21,5 million dollars. This building at 3725 North First Street formerly belonged to Maxim Integrated and served as a semiconductor manufacturing site. It's not entirely clear what Apple will use this particular property for, but speculation suggests it will be a staging area for manufacturing or research. According to Silicon Valley Business Journal research of various prototypes could take place here.
Analysts believe it may have something to do with its own GPU, which Apple has been rumored to be developing. The iPhone manufacturer would like to become independent and get rid of dependence on other companies, similar to the case of the A-series processors, which are developed by its engineers and Apple only outsources production. Its products would clearly benefit from the graphics chip's own design.
However, Apple has also addressed the situation, publicly stating that it is expanding to San Jose for additional office space and research facilities.
“As we grow, we plan to build development, research and office space in San Jose. The property is not that far from our future campus and we are really excited to be expanding in the Bay Area,” Apple said of the new property purchase.
Apple's statement makes sense, since in the past months this company bought a large amount of land in the mentioned metropolitan area. A research and development building purchased in May with a size of 90 square meters, more than 170 square meters of real estate purchased in August and an office building with a size of less than 62 square meters – these are the purchases of Apple, which certainly does not skimp on space. Not to mention buying the campus in Sunnyvale.
Again, only time will tell how Apple will deal with the newly acquired building in north San Jose.
Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal, Fudzilla
