Tim Cook claims that Apple chips will be manufactured in the United States at an Arizona factory
Apple Inc will now build chips in the United States, reducing its reliance on Asian manufacturing, confirmed CEO Tim Cook. Cook announced on Twitter, Apple silicon enables our users to achieve new levels of performance. Many of these chips will soon be stamped Made in America.
For the first time in nearly a decade, Apple chips will manufacture in the United States. Cook stated that Apple will strengthen its relationship with TSMC, which already manufactures chips for the iPhone maker. The plant, which is set to open in 2024, will produce a more advanced chip than was previously announced. The world’s largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, is a major supplier to major US hardware manufacturers. Its $40 billion investment in the two facilities is the company’s largest outside of Taiwan. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke alongside US President Joe Biden and executives from chip companies at the Phoenix, Arizona, site of a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plant under construction.
The opening of TSMC’s plant in Arizona marks a new era of advanced manufacturing in the US and we are proud to become the site’s largest customer, Cook wrote, celebrating the massive expansion of the Taiwanese semiconductor plant. TSMC announced plans to build a second facility in Phoenix by 2026, increasing its investment from $12 billion to $40 billion, with the ultimate goal of producing 600,000 microchips per year. At least a dozen large cranes remain in place around the first factory, known as Fab 21. The factory is located in northern Phoenix, surrounded by brown hills and open land.
According to the company, once both plants are operational, approximately 10,000 high-tech jobs will be created. Apple Inc, Nvidia Corp, and Advanced Micro Devices Inc, all major TSMC customers, have stated that their chips will be manufactured in the new Arizona facilities. With the new TSMC factory in the background and a drape reading “A Future Made in America Phoenix, AZ,” TSMC executives led by founder Morris Chang, 91, toasted the factory opening with sparkling wine, along with CEOs of key machine suppliers and Apple, Nvidia, and AMD.
