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Tag: Apple R&D

Apple’s R&D investments surpass 10% of sales as AI race creates ‘sense of urgency’

Thursday, May 7, 2026 1:30 pmWednesday, May 6, 20261 Comment

Apple’s R&D spending reached 10.3% of revenue in the March quarter as the company accelerates its investments in artificial intelligence.

Apple’s AI spending trails far behind other megacaps. It’s not hurting sales

Friday, October 31, 2025 3:03 pmFriday, October 31, 20256 Comments

While many of the largest tech companies race to build massive data centers for their artificial intelligence ambitions, Apple is taking a…

Apple CFO: ‘We are making significant investments’ in AI and ‘believe we are well-positioned’

Friday, May 3, 2024 11:56 am7 Comments

Apple is planning a long-awaited push into generative artificial intelligence (GenIA), the fruits of which are expected to be revealed at its…

iPhone 11: How Apple makes tech of the future affordable

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:32 pmTuesday, September 24, 20193 Comments

Two years ago, Apple surprised the world with the tech-laden, $999 iPhone X…

Analyst: Apple is investing heavily in R&D of new products

Friday, May 17, 2019 5:32 pmFriday, May 17, 201917 Comments

Investors are focusing on the “apparent lack of ongoing innovation at Apple,” but…

What’s Apple, now one of the biggest R&D investors, getting for its money?

Saturday, March 9, 2019 10:54 am21 Comments

Apple has been massively ramping up its spending on research and development…

Apple’s soaring R&D expenditures could pay off big

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 3:55 pm4 Comments

Apple‘s research and development spending has been trending higher…

Apple’s aggressively investing in its future

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 10:27 am10 Comments

History is replete with examples of technology companies that once generated vast sums of revenue and profit…

Apple R&D spending continues to grow in lockstep with iPhone, AR projects

Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:34 am8 Comments

A $602 million year-over-year increase brings the company’s six-month spend on future operations to nearly…

Apple shareholders defeat two shareholder proposals, CEO Cook downplays special dividend

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:34 amWednesday, February 14, 201818 Comments

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook downplayed a suggestion that the company might issue a special dividend…

Why Apple shareholders should hope for a ‘normal’ dividend hike

Monday, January 22, 2018 11:10 am13 Comments

The reason investors don’t want a much larger dividend or a special dividend is that Apple would…

Apple’s big repatriation cash winners: Shareholders

Friday, January 19, 2018 9:26 amFriday, January 19, 201820 Comments

Apple Inc. announced a $38 billion tax windfall for the U.S. government this week…

Apple’s global web of R&D labs doubles as poaching operation – Bloomberg

Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:59 am18 Comments

Nothing unusual about that for a company that spends $11 billion a year on R&D, but…

Apple’s first Indonesian R&D center to open in second quarter

Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:51 pmThursday, March 30, 20173 Comments

Technology giant Apple Inc.’s first Indonesian research and development (R&D) center…

Apple to spend $507 million to set up two more research centers, boost investment in in China

Friday, March 17, 2017 8:44 am2 Comments

Apple Inc. has revealed plans to set up two more research centers and boost investment in China…

Apple CFO Maestri participates in Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2017

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:28 pmWednesday, February 15, 20175 Comments

R&D allows us to keep our differentiation from the rest of the industry…

Apple has to start addressing these problems in 2017

Tuesday, December 27, 2016 10:30 amWednesday, February 8, 201759 Comments

Apple had some real problems in 2016 and, if the company wants to stay at the peak of relevancy…

LG Innotek and Apple developing 3D camera for next-gen iPhone

Monday, November 28, 2016 11:28 amMonday, November 28, 20164 Comments

LG Innotek united forces with Apple to develop a smartphone camera module which enables…

China adopts cyber security law in face of overseas opposition; forces Apple to keep data on local servers

Monday, November 7, 2016 3:27 pmMonday, November 7, 201614 Comments

China adopted a controversial cyber security law on Monday to counter what Beijing says are growing threats…

Apple’s skyrocketing R&D investments explained

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 4:07 pmWednesday, November 2, 201622 Comments

Even though a good chunk of that now quite large research-and-development budget is probably being spent in

What does Apple get for $10 billion of R&D?

Friday, October 28, 2016 4:02 pm33 Comments

Apple seems to have some big things cooking up…

Analysts: Apple’s innovation will pay off… eventually

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 9:26 am13 Comments

Despite a third straight quarter of lower year-over-year sales, Apple is looking ahead to some…

Apple special event predictions: Apple Iris Engine, Smart Button and more

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 8:17 pmTuesday, September 6, 201610 Comments

The following is all based on months of legal research. I’ve been working up to this for a good while…

Apple CEO Cook keeps trying to right the ship in China

Friday, August 19, 2016 5:33 pmFriday, August 19, 201631 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook is on a tour of China, meeting with politicians, shaking hands and taking pictures…

A different kind of Apple at the core: What would Steve do? We actually don’t know

Thursday, August 11, 2016 4:01 pmThursday, August 11, 20165 Comments

Different is not necessarily bad. Tim Cook has a different personality than Steve Jobs and…

Why Apple likes to keep so many secrets

Thursday, August 11, 2016 2:55 pmThursday, August 11, 20166 Comments

Apple is a notoriously secretive company, choosing to keep things under wraps until it has a product ready…

Apple is spending a ton of money on secret projects

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 3:01 pmWednesday, July 27, 201622 Comments

Apple spent $7.5 billion on research for the year, and is on track to outpace last year’s spend…

Leaked photos of Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus show Smart Connector, no mute switch

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 1:28 pm10 Comments

Some sources have described the 5.5 inch model as a separate SKU, an “iPhone 7 Pro,” for which…

Apple granted U.S. patent for dual-camera system

Tuesday, July 5, 2016 2:58 pmTuesday, July 5, 20165 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 7 is [rumored] to introduce a dual lens camera system…

Does Apple need to invent or innovate?

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 10:05 am17 Comments

In various conversations recently, I have heard both Apple backers and detractors bemoaning the fact…

Why Apple is spending crazy amounts of money on new ideas

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:57 pm17 Comments

One of the hallmarks of Silicon Valley companies is that they tend to increase their spending on…

Apple is making iPhone 7 the next killer device

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 4:48 pmTuesday, May 17, 201630 Comments

Apple is adding some really cool features to the iPhone 7 that will support demand, including dual-lens camera…

Apple’s top secret ‘Athena’ chip fab gets new ‘delicate instruments’

Saturday, April 30, 2016 10:48 amSaturday, April 30, 201612 Comments

Semi-trailer truckloads of equipment, wrapped in anti-static foil labeled as ‘delicate instruments’ have been…

Apple’s massive R&D expenditure indicates myriad projects in the pipeline

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:27 pmWednesday, April 27, 201623 Comments

Famously secretive Apple doesn’t tip its hand on new stuff, but its fiscal second quarter report…

‘Apple Freak’ Fiat Chrysler CEO: Apple ‘ill’ if they try making a car on their own

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:33 pmWednesday, March 2, 201654 Comments

Illnesses like this come and go, you will recover from them…

This is it: Apple’s $600 billion gamble

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 4:51 pm27 Comments

Annualized, Apple will be investing more into R&D then the entire economic output of 60 different countries…

Apple patent application reveals new dual camera zoom lens system

Thursday, January 7, 2016 1:24 pmThursday, January 7, 20164 Comments

Apple has been working on a new zoom lens system for iDevices for some time now…

Apple’s taking big steps toward controlling even more primary technology

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:01 pmTuesday, December 15, 20157 Comments

Things may be about to get tough for some Apple partners as the company invests in…

Apple buys former chip fab in San Jose, California

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 9:25 amTuesday, December 15, 20155 Comments

The facility also offers a complete tool line consisting of 197 well-maintained front-end tools…

Apple operating secret laboratory in Taiwan to develop new, thinner displays for iPhone, iPad and Macintosh

Monday, December 14, 2015 11:57 pm29 Comments

Apple Inc. opened a secret production laboratory in northern Taiwan where engineers are developing new display technologies…

Bill Ford: carmakers must collaborate with tech companies like Apple

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 3:33 pm6 Comments

Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, has said he wants to transform from a carmaker…

Apple’s new Japanese R&D center to focus on vehicles, materials, and health

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:38 amWednesday, July 15, 20153 Comments

Alongside an expanding retail presence…

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