Apple doubles down on U.S. manufacturing; part of $600 billion pledge coming to TI plant in Lehi

Apple has announced a major move to bring manufacturing of its products home to the U.S. One of the facilities that will receive part of Apple’s $600 billion pledge is the Texas Instruments 300-millimeter computer chip fabrication facility in Lehi, shown under construction in May. (Photo courtesy Texas Instruments)

Mega consumer electronics company Apple has announced an additional $100 billion will be added to its pledge to return a large chunk of its manufacturing to the U.S. — and part of that investment apparently will be coming to Utah.

The Cupertino, California-based company announced Aug. 6 that an unspecified amount of its investment will go to Texas Instruments (TI) to support tool installations at the TI facility in Lehi, along with a TI plant under construction in Sherman, Texas.

Earlier this year, in an apparent nod to pressure from the Trump administration, Apple announced plans to spend $500 billion in its effort to start building its products in the U.S. The latest pledge brings the total planned U.S. investment to $600 billion. In May, President Trump announced a threatened 25 percent tariff on phone makers’ foreign-made products, according to a story in The New York Times.

Apple’s investment pledge is part of its new American Manufacturing Program (AMP), which will reportedly support American manufacturers of silicon chips and other parts used in Apple’s wildly popular iPhones.

“Today, we’re proud to increase our investments across the United States to $600 billion over four years and launch our new American Manufacturing Program,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “This includes new and expanded work with 10 companies across America. They produce components that are used in Apple products sold all over the world, and we’re grateful to the president for his support.”

“We’re committed to supporting U.S. suppliers involved in every key stage of the chip-making process — from the earliest stages of research and development to final fabrication and packaging,” said Sabih Khan, Apple’s chief operating officer. We want America to lead in this critical industry, and we’re expanding our efforts to grow a silicon manufacturing ecosystem that will benefit innovators across America.”

Apple is partnering with multiple companies across the United States in order to increase their capabilities to manufacture semiconductors, glass and silicon chips domestically. One of those partners is Texas Instruments, and according to the Apple announcement, this new partnership will focus partially on Texas Instrument’s facility in Lehi, which “will manufacture critical foundational semiconductors used for
Apple products.”

In 2022, Texas Instruments began production of semiconductor wafer chips at its LFAB1 (Lehi Fabrication 1) plant in Lehi. In 2023, TI broke ground on a second wafer fabrication plant on the Utah site.

Apple manufacturing employs more than 450,000 people, with thousands of suppliers and partners across all 50 states. In addition to the Utah expansion, “significant” new investments will be made in Arizona, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Texas, the recent announcement said.

The first companies to receive investment under Apple’s AMP include Corning, Coherent, GlobalWafers America, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, Amkor and Broadcom, the new statement said. In July, Apple said it would begin to buy American-made rare earth magnets from MP Materials, headquartered in Las Vegas.

Although no specific dollar amounts were given on Apple’s Texas Instrument investment in Utah in the announcement earlier this month, Utah leaders welcomed the news.

In a post on X, Gov. Spencer Cox said Apple’s Utah investment “will support high-paying jobs, national security and long-term economic strength in Utah.”

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