Research Costs Apple Just 3.5% of revenues

Research and development are a key element of the future growth of a company. Citing information from Bloomberg, as reported by Phone Arena, Thursday (12/03/2015), the tech giant Silicon Valley generally spend two-digit percentage of their income for the purposes of research and development.

Google, for example, spent nearly US $ 10 billion for research. The figure is really great because the 15 percent of the company's revenue.

Later, other companies such as Qualcomm and Facebook, reportedly spending more than 20 percent of its revenue on research and development to 'fuel' further growth.

Not only that, the figures were also disbursed to ensure that they stay ahead in the midst of a highly competitive market.

So, what about Apple? a Cupertino-based company is apparently spent the least amount on research and development.

How exactly? Was only 3.5 percent of the US $ 233 billion total revenue. It should be underlined, that number is far smaller than that spent by other companies.

Here are the details of research and development costs for the fourth largest company of the Silicon Valley.

1. Apple - 3.5 percent of the $ 233 billion, ie US $ 8.15 billion
2. Google 15 percent of the $ 66 billion, ie US $ 9.9 billion
3. Qualcomm - 22 percent of the $ 25.3 billion, which is $ 5.56 billion
4. up 21 percent from $ 12.5 billion, ie US $ 2.625 billion

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