The company Apple, the world's largest developer of software and hardware, intends to build in Japan, Asia's largest research center. This was told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking to the townspeople Saitama election campaign with a speech.
"Apple decided to conduct in Japan advanced research and development. This will be officially announced in the near future - said the Prime Minister of Japan. - The Corporation will build the largest in Japan in the Asia Research Center".
The details of the new project of the American corporation, however, the head of the Japanese government did not disclose. It is assumed that the experts a new research center will be engaged in promising technologies in the field of electronics.
In II quarter 2014 Apple in the third of increased spending on research and development compared with data for the same period of 2013. If the company will continue to invest in R & D at the same rate, by the end of the year the company's costs on this cost will exceed $ 4.5 billion.
In official documents, Apple said that the company's investments are concentrated around the new products, as well as the empowerment of existing solutions. Not difficult to guess, most of the investment directly related to mobile devices. The lion's share of spending on R & D - it's still the iPhone, which "eats" almost a third of the budget.
In November it became known about Apple's plans to open a research center in Cambridge, UK.