So wait: exporting pollution overseas is something you do support?
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Apple to Source Chips From Arizona Starting in 2024
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Considering the likelihood of a higher inflation in 2024 it is actually a very reasonable price.
i'm liking the domestic production, but it is pretty expensive. Sport stadiums cost way less to build, must be the machines.
LOL. It is impossible to take over TSMC "by force". You will never be able to repair the equipment or buy any spare parts. There is much more to it than just a physical building.
More expensive you mean, labor cost here will shoot the up the price of the phone
Logically speaking yes, and the vast majority of consumers don’t care where there phone is made I wouldn’t mind betting. iPhones are already sky-high in terms of cost and increasing beyond what we are seeing is unsustainable in the long term. I suppose another question is; why should we pay more?
This just gives the competition a reason to undercut Apple on retail prices which is good for the consumer.
Wow, after reading all the negative comments it sounds to me like no matter what Apple does someone in this group will say it's a bad idea. I didn't realize there were so many people here that dislike Apple and their products. 
I'm not from the US, but I'd be willing to pay an extra $100 to buy a US made iPhone.
I’m not usually much of an Apple basher but I don’t think that cheaper manufacturing costs will lead to cheaper priced items, and especially with electronics I don’t think it matters who that manufacturer is.
For about any business, lower costs mean more profits, unless the company is already having problems selling an item. Apple isn’t having problems selling iPhones.
The EU will say that it’s anti-competitive for Apple to have such high performing, low power processors that only Apple can use. They will label Apple a Gatekeeper to the technology and demand they make their chips available for other companies or pay… I don’t know… 2 times Apple’s worldwide net worth for each month they don’t comply? Sounds like something they’d do.
It wouldn’t be Apple pulling it off, though. It would be TSMC or Foxconn or some other non-US company.
Get ready for two SKU's -- iPhone China Version ($1299). iPhone Made in USA version ($1699). We Americans don't work for peanuts.
Good to see production return to the USA. I tip my hats off to our counterparts in Asia, Taiwan and the innovations they've brought to the marketplace. EUV has been such an enabling technology. But America, in my humble opinion, also needs to be a manufacturer of leading edge silicon as well. But it's expensive!! Billions of dollars to bring up a new plant...
Luckily, Intel has been raking in several billions in profit per quarter for years and years. They have the funds, and then some, to build however many fabs they need. On top of that Intel will now receive public funding to build (or rather, equip) the fabs it would have to build anyway. (!!!)
If US lithographic fabbing isn't top notch, it sure as hell isn't due to lack of money.
Bring manufacturing back to America. Hasn't pandemic showed you the effects of not having manufacturing in America and instead depend on communist china? Or Greed still dictates that jobs continue to be shipped out to India, China etc. SHAME!
I hope Apple makes more products here in America!
I hope Apple makes more products here in America!
Apple has designed many of the assembly techniques and tools used in their devices. Almost all of it is proprietary and secret but Apple did notoriously share its recycling robot:
To my point, this robot is actually in the US (Texas) because robotics enable lower labour, making it an affordable operation in North America. This materials mining stage is one instance where Apple can viably bring iPhone manufacturing to the US. Chip manufacturing is another. But componentry and final assembly are nowhere in sight, unless Apple invents an assembly robot unlike anything that exists today.
I’m not from the US either and to me an iPhone made in the US holds absolutely no benefit to me whatsoever. Right now I’m looking to start paying less for products, not pay premiums.
You shouldn’t. It’d be far from US-made anyway, there’s always children mining somewhere and Apple taking advantage of that
Nice to hear. Will TSMC build a whole complex for Apple? I think they originally built the plant for more specialized military and communications stuff after being pressured by the U.S. government.
I googled to find out where Daisy is located. One in the US and one here.
Meet Daisy, Apple’s recycling robot
Apple created its own robots to help deal with the growing problem of e-waste.
Recycling is one thing, they’re taking apart 200 per hour which is impressive considering how small some of the parts they’re recycling are. Assembly is currently being done at a rate of over 35 thousand per hour. THAT is where Apple and literally every producer of high volume devices are depending on the knowledge and skill of non-US companies to get that assembly done. Apple doesn’t want to be in manufacturing… that’s why their diversification is 1:1 related to Foxconn and TSMC rolling out new factories and following where they lead.
Best news ever !!!
Keep it ALL in house , as Steve always wanted
Keep it ALL in house , as Steve always wanted