Expanding Teams and Facilities in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington
Plans Include a New Texas Factory, Doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a Manufacturing Academy, and Accelerating Investments in AI and Silicon Engineering
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced its largest spending commitment ever, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. This new commitment builds on Apple’s long history of investing in U.S. innovation and high-end advanced manufacturing, and will support multiple initiatives focused on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country.
“We are optimistic about the future of American innovation, and we are proud to build on our longstanding investments in the United States with this $500 billion commitment to the future of our country,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook. “From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund to building cutting-edge technology in Texas, we are excited to expand our support for American manufacturing. And we will continue to work with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.” As part of this U.S. investment, Apple and its partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce the servers that power Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps users write, express themselves, and get things done. Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, establish an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers, and increase research and development investments in the United States to support cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering. The $500 billion commitment includes Apple’s operations with thousands of suppliers across all 50 states, direct jobs, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ manufacturing in 20 states. Apple remains one of the largest taxpayers in the United States, having paid more than $75 billion in U.S. taxes over the past five years, including $19 billion in 2024 alone.
Today, Apple supports more than 2.9 million jobs nationwide through direct hiring, partnerships with U.S. suppliers and manufacturers, and development work in the thriving iOS app economy
Opening a new manufacturing facility in Houston
As part of its new investments in the United States, Apple will work with manufacturing partners to begin server manufacturing in Houston later this year. A 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility, scheduled 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, combining powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture ever deployed at scale for AI cloud computing. These servers combine years of research and development by Apple engineers and deliver the industry-leading security and performance of Apple silicon to the data center.
Teams at Apple designed the servers to be extremely energy efficient, reducing the energy needs of Apple’s data centers — which are already powered by 100% renewable energy. As Apple brings Apple Intelligence to customers across the United States, the company also
plans to continue expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.
Doubles Apple’s U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund
As part of this new investment, Apple is doubling its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which was established in 2017 to support world-class innovation and high-skilled manufacturing jobs across the United States. The increased commitment will increase the fund from $5 billion to $10 billion, focused on advancing advanced manufacturing and skills development across the country.
The fund expansion includes a multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple to produce advanced silicon at 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 chips in the United States. Mass production of Apple chips began last month.
The silicon Apple uses is designed to bring incredible features, performance, and energy efficiency to Apple users in their devices. Apple suppliers currently manufacture silicon in 24 factories across 12 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah. The company’s investments in this space have helped create thousands of high-paying jobs across the country at U.S. companies like Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Skyworks, and Qorvo.
To date, Apple’s U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund has supported projects in 13 states — including Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Indiana — to help build local businesses, train workers, and create more innovative manufacturing processes and materials for Apple products.
Increased R&D Investment Across the US
Apple Continues to Expand R&D Across the US Over the past five years, Apple has nearly doubled its spending on advanced R&D in the US and will continue to accelerate its growth.
Apple recently announced the latest addition to its iPhone lineup, the iPhone 16e. The iPhone 16e delivers fast, smooth performance and breakthrough battery life, thanks to the industry-leading performance of the A18 chip and the new Apple C1 — the first Apple-designed cellular modem and the most power-efficient modem ever in an iPhone. The Apple C1 opens a new chapter in the Apple silicon story and is the result of years of R&D investment and the work of thousands of engineers. The Apple C1 is the beginning of a long-term strategy that will enable Apple to innovate and optimize the modem system for additional Apple products.
Over the next four years, Apple plans to hire approximately 20,000 people, with the majority of them focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning. The expansion commitment includes significant investment in Apple’s R&D centers across the country. This includes growing teams across the United States focused on areas including custom silicon, hardware engineering, software development, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Supporting US businesses with new manufacturing academy in Detroit
To help companies transition to advanced manufacturing, Apple will open the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit. Apple engineers, along with experts from leading universities like Michigan State, will advise small and medium-sized businesses on implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques. The academy will also offer free in-person and online courses, with a skills development program that teaches workers critical skills like project management and manufacturing process optimization. The courses will help drive productivity, efficiency, and quality across the company’s supply chain.
Apple has long been committed to investing in education and skills development for American workers and students. That includes ongoing and expanded grants to organizations like 4-H, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and FIRST, which work closely with Apple in communities across the country to create free programs that help young people learn critical skills like coding.
Apple’s support for the next generation of innovators also includes efforts like the company’s New Silicon Initiative, which prepares students for careers in hardware engineering and silicon chip design. The program expanded to students at Georgia Tech last year and now reaches students at eight schools across the country. Apple is continuing to expand the initiative, including a new partnership with UCLA’s Center for Education in Integrated Circuit Design (CEMiD) starting this year.
