Apple Investing Another $100 Billion to Boost American Manufacturing

Apple Investing Another $100 Billion to Boost American Manufacturing

Apple CEO Tim Cook committed $100 billion more in American production, including glass manufacturing for iPhones and producing other products.

The announcement included:

• Chips for Apple
• Buying American made advanced rare earth magnets
• Smartphone glass manufacturing
• Investments in AI
• Rare earth recycling line
• 25,000 square foot server manufacturing facility in Houston
• More data centers
• Manufacturing academy in Detroit

Apple developed the American manufacturing Program with Corning, Coherent, GlobalWafers, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, Amkor, and Broadcom.

Now we need to cut all of the red tape that makes it so expensive for companies to manufacture in America!

Cook said:

Mr. President, thank you very much for having me here today. You’ve been a great advocate for American innovation and manufacturing. I’m grateful for your leadership and your commitment. That’s a commitment we share at Apple, because American innovation is central to everything we do. Our products are designed here. We’re hiring and growing here, and we support 450,000 jobs with 1000s of suppliers and partners in all 50 states.

Earlier this year, we made our largest ever spending commitment, $500 billion to the US over the next four years that’s already yielding results. Earlier this year, we broke ground on a new factory in Houston to make advanced AI servers, and just last month, the very first test unit rolled off that factory’s line, proudly made in America. President Trump shared some kind words about that but he also asked us to think about what more we could commit to doing. And Mr. President, we took that challenge very seriously.

I’m glad to be here with you today, and I’m very proud to say that today, we’re committing an additional $100 billion to the United States, bringing our total US investment to $600 billion over the next four years. As a part of this, we’re launching Apple’s American manufacturing program. It will spur even more production right here in America for critical components used in Apple products all around the world. And we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve already signed new agreements with 10 companies across America to do just that.

First with today’s announcements, I’m proud to say that Apple is leading the creation of an end to end silicon supply chain right here in America, from design to equipment to wafer production, to fabrication to packaging. In Texas, we’re working with manufacturers like Texas Instruments, GlobalWafers America, and Applied Materials. We’re working with Amcor in Arizona, and Broadcom and Global Foundries in New York. Thanks to President Trump’s vision, and with his help in his first term, we also led the way to bring TSMC to Arizona by committing to be their first and largest customer. Today, they’re producing tens of millions of chips for Apple using one of the most advanced process technologies in America. Today, we’re going to keep working with our suppliers to move even more of this incredibly advanced work to America. And this year alone, American manufacturers are on track to make 19 billion chips for Apple in 24 factories across 12 different states.

Second, we’re committed to buying American made advanced rare earth magnets developed by MP materials which will become part of Apple’s devices shipped around the world. MP is the only fully integrated rare earth producer in the United States, and with this partnership, they’ll be significantly expanding their flagship facility in Fort Worth, Texas. We’re also thrilled to work together on a cutting edge rare earth recycling line in Mountain Pass, California, and third in Kentucky.

We’ve worked with our partners at Corning to build the world’s largest and most advanced smartphone glass production line, and I’m pleased to announce that very soon, this is for the first time ever, every single new iPhone and every single new Apple Watch sold anywhere in the world will contain cover glass made in Kentucky.

In addition to the American manufacturing program, we’re also significantly growing our investments in AI, including expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, in Nevada, in Iowa, in Arizona and Oregon.

So we’re going to keep making investments right here in America. We’re going to keep hiring in America, and we’re going to keep building technologies at the heart of our products right here in America, because we’re a proud American company, and we believe deeply in the promise of this great nation. Thank you all, and thank you President Trump, for pulling or for putting American innovation and American jobs front and center. Thank you, sir.

WATCH: @Apple CEO @tim_cook's full remarks from the Oval Office:

"I'm very proud to say that today, we're committing an additional $100 billion to the United States, bringing our total U.S. investment to $600 billion… We believe deeply in the promise of this great nation." pic.twitter.com/XZgY250nJk

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 6, 2025

Apple is expanding our US commitment to $600 billion over the next four years. And our new American Manufacturing Program will bring even more jobs and advanced manufacturing to the US. pic.twitter.com/6KWkTGJN3O

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) August 6, 2025

Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to America. It means jobs and a better economy.

He promised a 100% tariff on chips and semiconductors coming into America:

It’s companies like Apple, they coming home. They’re all coming home, and we want them to come home. They have to come home. We’re going to treat them really well. We’re going to be putting a very large tariff on chips and semiconductors. But the good news for companies like Apple is, if you’re building in the United States, or have committed to build, without question, committed to build in the United States, there will be no charge. In other words, we’re not going to be charging so a lot of countries, a lot of companies are leaving various other places, and they’re coming to the United States.

So in other words, we’ll be putting a tariff on of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors. But if you’re building in the United States of America, there’s no charge, even though you’re building and you’re not producing yet, in terms of the big numbers of jobs and all of the things that you’re building, if you’re building, there will be no charge. So I just want everyone to know that, and I didn’t even tell you that inside, we discussed the concept, but I didn’t so it’s a big factor. So 100% tariff on all chips and semiconductors coming into the United States.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just announced he will be putting a 100% tariff on chips & semiconductors being imported

"Companies like Apple are COMING HOME!"

"If you have made a commitment to build or are in the process of building [in USA], as many are, there is no tariff."… pic.twitter.com/7OubWJMlRd

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 6, 2025

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Apple CEO Tim Cook will join President Donald Trump today to announce the company’s plan to invest $100 billion in America.

The announcement will come at 4:30 PM ET. I will update this piece after the press conference.

From Bloomberg:

The announcement at the White House on Wednesday includes a new manufacturing program designed to bring more of Apple’s supply chain to the US, with an eye toward assembling additional critical components domestically, according to a White House official who detailed the announcement on the condition of anonymity. Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is expected to attend the event.

“President Trump’s America First economic agenda has secured trillions of dollars in investments that support American jobs and bolster American businesses,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement. “Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry that will simultaneously help reshore the production of critical components to protect America’s economic and national security.”

In February, Apple said it would invest $500 billion in domestic manufacturing and add 20,000 jobs to avoid tariffs.

The plans for the $500 billion included “a new server manufacturing facility in Houston, a supplier academy in Michigan and additional spending with its existing suppliers in the country.”

In May, Trump told Cook to build the iPhone in America or face a 25% tariff after he heard about Apple building more products in India to reduce its reliance on China.

Apple produces 90% of the iPhones in China.

This is likely a smart move by Cook because Trump just added another 25% tariff on India for buying oil from Russia.

India now faces a 50% tariff.

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