It’s been several years since Apple announced its intention to expand beyond its retail presence in San Diego and create a hardware and software development center. Now in what looks like the company’s first commercial purchase in the area, Apple has bought HP’s old 67-acre campus as it ramps up work building its own modem and more.
About 20 miles from many of Qualcomm’s offices, Apple purchased the campus of the old HP Inkjet Research Lab in Rancho Bernardo. Apple paid $445 million for the 67.6-acre campus known as the Rancho Vista Corporate Center, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Apple has leased many different properties in San Diego County, but this appears to be the company’s first purchase as it takes engineering work in Southern California more seriously.
At first, Apple planned to add 1,200 new jobs in San Diego for hardware and software development, but is now expected to add up to 5,000 by 2026.
“We’ve been part of the San Diego community for over two decades and are thrilled to continue to invest here while expanding our world-class teams,” Apple said in a statement. The representative declined to comment further.
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This purchase looks like Apple’s firm commitment to the modem and other wireless engineering.
Shortly after Apple announced its intentions to expand its developments in San Diego, the company announced a $1 billion deal with Intel for its smartphone modem business as it began work on its own modem.
While earlier reports suggested that Apple wants to use its own modems in products like the iPhone as early as 2023, the decision to settle the intense lawsuit with Qualcomm and sign a six-year deal that runs through 2025 means that these plans may have been shelved or at least changed to some extent. We’ll have to wait and see.
But, of course, Apple’s work to produce its own modems continues, which can be said to be a new extension of Apple Silicon, bringing more hardware components to the company.
If the images that are displayed for the newly acquired campus on Google Maps are accurate, Apple may have a lot of renovation work to do…
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