Apple is putting another $ 100 billion to increase manufacturing in the United States as the company responds to President Donald Trump’s pressure to produce more products in the United States. The move has followed the company’s preliminary plan to invest $ 500 billion over the next four years, and includes a new US manufacturing program that the company says will bring Apple’s “supply chain and advanced manufacturing” to the United States.
As part of its investment, Apple has agreed to an extended partnership with corning to produce the “100 percent” of the iPhone and Apple Watch Core Glass in Kentucky. According to Apple’s press release, it will also work with Samsung in its chip fib in Austin, Texas, “to start a modern new technology to make chips, which has never been used anywhere in the world.”
Apple’s Houston -based server factory, which he announced earlier this year, will launch mass production in 2026, while Apple is also expanding its data center in North Carolina Maden. Last month, Apple announced that it would open a manufacturing academy in Michigan to train American companies in “modern manufacturing” techniques.
It is unclear whether Apple’s new promises will reinforce Trump, who believes that Apple can make his iPhone in the United States. Apple has transferred some of its manufacturing in recent years to China and Vietnam and India in recent years trying to avoid barriers to revenue and supply chain. Trump has criticized Apple not to bring the work back to the United States instead, and if more products do not produce more domestic, the company has been threatened with 25 % tariff.
“I am proud to say that Apple is guiding the formation of a silicon supply chain here in the United States here, from design to goods from production to packaging,” Cook said during a press briefing. “We will continue to work with our suppliers to move this incredibly modern work to the United States.”
Apple revealed last week that Trump’s prices have increased its spending by $ 1.1 billion in the September quarter, which can increase $ 800 million, which it has already spent on Levies. Trump has also introduced new “mutual” taxes that affect imported products from several countries, including Vietnam, which produce Mac, iPads and watches. On Wednesday, Trump said he would increase the taxes on India by 25 %, where Cook said the “majority” of iPhones for the United States had been made.
Update, August 6: Added a statement from Cook.
