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Apple Announces Plans to Make More iPhone Parts in USA

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Apple today announced four new members of its American Manufacturing Program: TDK, Bosch, Cirrus Logic, and Qnity Electronics.

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Apple said TDK will manufacture tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) sensors in the U.S. for the first time ever, for use in iPhones shipped around the world. Apple says these sensors help to support iPhone features such as camera stabilization.

Apple, Bosch, and TSMC will work together to produce integrated circuits (ICs) for Bosch's new sensing hardware at a TSMC facility in Washington, according to Apple. These chips help to support features like Crash Detection, tracking in the Activity app, and elevation measurements across products like the iPhone and Apple Watch.

Apple said it is also working with Cirrus Logic and GlobalFoundries to establish new semiconductor process technologies at a GlobalFoundries facility in New York. This collaboration enables Cirrus Logic to develop solutions for a number of components in Apple products, including advanced chips that power Face ID systems.

Finally, Qnity Electronics and HD MicroSystems will provide "cutting-edge materials and technologies essential for semiconductor manufacturing." This collaboration will "pioneer innovations for high-performance computing and AI."

Apple's American Manufacturing Program aims to bring more "advanced manufacturing and critical component production" to the U.S., as part of the company's four-year $600 billion commitment to U.S. manufacturing and innovation. Apple is dedicating $400 million of the $600 billion to these four new members of the program through 2030.

"At Apple, we believe in the power of American innovation and manufacturing, and we're proud to partner with even more companies to produce critical components and cutting-edge materials for our products right here in the U.S.," said Apple's CEO Tim Cook.

The program's initial members included Amkor, Broadcom, Coherent, Corning, GlobalFoundries, GlobalWafers America, Samsung, Texas Instruments, and others.

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I wonder if the FCC banning the sale of foreign made routers gave Apple a push at all to get iPhone production set up here in the US. Get things in place for the possible ban of more foreign made consumer product sales.
 
kyjaotkb said:
I think it's good to see know-how and specialty manufacturing returning to US shores but I hate that this comes in a context of appeasement vis-à-vis the fascist bully, and this makes me doubt that the initiative itself is genuine.
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I am going to to reply to this one, but it is also applies to many of the other post I have seen so far.

Yes, the President of the USA is an unstable force of uncertainty, but Apple already had large investment programs in place for American manufacturing long before Trump even ran for office the first time.

Corning Glass - the company who has been making like 100% of Apple’s glass for iPhones since day one. Apple has invested and worked with them to improve the glass.

I don’t remember the company, but they have a site in Sherman, TX that makes the FaceID module/tech. Apple invested in them to increase production.

Intel - Apple and Intel have a long history of working together on so many different tech products. They also have a long history of one of them failing to meet the other’s needs/expectations. These collaborations cost time and money.

This doesn’t even count all the other programs and companies Apple works with in America to hence their supply chain.

Apple spends/invest hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars every year into 3rd party sources - be they manufacturing or education or anything else that supports their supply chain (bottom line)

And, here they have 600 billion, ear marked for US manufacturing improvements. I would bet you, that’s more than any other company out there, including Uncle Sam and the current administration.

Side note - When Trump was running the first time, Flint Michigan was having their water crisis. I felt that if Trump truly cared, he would have asked, “How much to fix the issue? …

Oh, that much, here is the money, fix the problem.”

If he and many of the other wealthy people would just put their money where their mouth is, they could have fixed so many issues faster than using them for political grandstanding.
 
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Nyx1 said:
Wish Apple have own foundry fab
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No you don’t. Better to let someone is fab it. Cost of set up and maintenance is stupid.

Contracting out, ends up being cheaper, as the fab can spread the cost across multiple companies contracting them.
 
The_Gream said:
I am going to to reply to this one, but it is also applies to many of the other post I have seen so far.

Yes, the President of the USA is an unstable force of uncertainty, but Apple already had large investment programs in place for American manufacturing long before Trump even ran for office the first time.

Corning Glass - the company who has been making like 100% of Apple’s glass for iPhones since day one. Apple has invested and worked with them to improve the glass.

I don’t remember the company, but they have a site in Sherman, TX that makes the FaceID module/tech. Apple invested in them to increase production.

Intel - Apple and Intel have a long history of working together on so many different tech products. They also have a long history of one of them failing to meet the other’s needs/expectations. These collaborations cost time and money.

This doesn’t even count all the other programs and companies Apple works with in America to hence their supply chain.

Apple spends/invest hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars every year into 3rd party sources - be they manufacturing or education or anything else that supports their supply chain (bottom line)

And, here they have 600 billion, ear marked for US manufacturing improvements. I would bet you, that’s more than any other company out there, including Uncle Sam and the current administration.

Side note - When Trump was running the first time, Flint Michigan was having their water crisis. I felt that if Trump truly cared, he would have asked, “How much to fix the issue? …

Oh, that much, here is the money, fix the problem.”

If he and many of the other wealthy people would just put their money where their mouth is, they could have fixed so many issues faster than using them for political grandstanding.
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I don't fundamentally disagree with you, it's just that when Tim "I'm not political" Cook gifts America's most corrupt, petty and deranged ever president a 24K gold plaque on the day that he announces such investments, one wonders what his and Apple's primary goals are. Time will tell.
 
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kyjaotkb said:
I don't fundamentally disagree with you, it's just that when Tim "I'm not political" Cook gifts America's most corrupt, petty and deranged ever president a 24K gold plaque on the day that he announces such investments, one wonders what his and Apple's primary goals are. Time will tell.
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There is that. I was just trying to point out that Apple was already heavily invested in American manufacturing.

As you said time will tell.
The business investment program Apple has been using for a long time only had a few billion in it, and now it’s ballooned to 600 billion in a handful of years.
 
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Biro said:
What gets me is that Apple and other companies could have been doing things like this long ago.
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Only if they wanted to have a more expensive supply chain.

When Apple if facing tariffs on their products, the financials changed a lot.
 
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Agit21 said:
So Trumps policy works......
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Seems like you’d have to weigh the benefits against the negatives. Are higher prices worth a few hundred or few thousand jobs when we already have low unemployment?

We’ll have to wait to see the long term impact. At this point, his policies have resulted in poor job growth, poor GDP growth, and poor stock market growth.
 
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