Apple has announced what it called its largest-ever investment commitment of US$500 billion in the United States over the next four years. Specifically, the pledge includes builds on Apple’s long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing. At the same time, it will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country.
“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing. And we’ll keep working with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”

As part of this package of U.S. investments, Apple and partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. Accordingly, it will produce servers that support Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system. Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, create an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers and grow its research and development investments in the U.S. to support cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering.
The $500 billion commitment includes Apple’s work with thousands of suppliers across all 50 states, direct employment, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ productions in 20 states.
Presently, Apple supports more than 2.9 million jobs across the United States through direct and indirect employment.

New Manufacturing Facility in Houston

As part of its new U.S. investments, Apple will work with manufacturing partners to begin production of servers in Houston later this year. A 250,000sq.ft. server manufacturing facility, slated to open in 2026, will create thousands of jobs.
Previously manufactured outside the United States, the servers that will soon be assembled in Houston play a key role in powering Apple Intelligence and are the foundation of Private Cloud Compute.
This combines powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture ever deployed at scale for AI cloud computing. The servers bring together years of R&D by Apple engineers and deliver the industry-leading security and performance of Apple silicon to the data center.

Promotes Advanced Manufacturing

As part of this new investment, Apple is doubling its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund created in 2017. Specifically, it will increase the fund from US$5 billion to US$10 billion, focused on promoting advanced manufacturing and skills development throughout the country.
The fund’s expansion includes a multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple to produce advanced silicon in TSMC’s Fab 21 facility in Arizona. Apple is the largest customer at this state-of-the-art facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers to manufacture the chips in the United States. Mass production of Apple chips began last month.
The company’s investments in the sector help create thousands of high-paying jobs across the country at U.S. companies like Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Skyworks, and Qorvo.

Growing R&D Investments

Apple continues to expand its R&D across the U.S. In the past five years, Apple has nearly doubled its U.S.-based advanced R&D spend, and it will continue to accelerate its growth.
One of the recent breakthroughs of its R&D are the A18 chip and the new Apple C1, the first cellular modem designed by Apple.
Apple C1 adds a new chapter to the story of Apple silicon and is the result of years of R&D investment, bringing together the work of thousands of engineers.
In the next four years, Apple plans to hire around 20,000 people, of which the vast majority will be focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.

28 February 2025