Apple has just announced what has called on the highest commitment to the expenditure and means that the company will invest more than $ 500 billion in the next four years.
Apple Research Facility in Austin, Texas.
“This new promise is based on Apple’s long history for investing in American innovation and advanced high -special production production and will support a wide range of initiatives focusing on artificial intelligence, silicon mechanics and skills development for students and workers the country ”. said the company.
This is a huge amount, obviously, even for a company as big as Apple. Many of them had already been committed and the total agreement may have been repeated to attract President Trump. It is certainly not a coincidence, for sure, that the four -year extent fits exactly with the term of the president.
There is a lot here. The US Advanced Production Fund, which Apple says it supports world -class innovation and high -quality manufacturing work, is twice as much than $ 5 billion in $ 10 billion. This fund “focuses on promoting advanced construction and development of skills across the country,” says Apple.
This extension includes a commitment to produce silicon in Arizona in FAB21, a TSMC installation.
There are more jobs, with Apple committing more than 20,000 people over the next four years.
Some of them will be in Houston, Texas, as part of the motion for the production of servers in a 250,000 -square -foot construction facility due to the open next year. The servers will be the key to Apple Intelligence and have previously been built outside the states.
There will also be more capacity of the data center in five other states: North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada.
Apple is also committed to increasing research and development in all the United States and Apple controls the latest fruit of these efforts: the Apple C1 Cellular Modem debut on the iPhone 16E on Friday, February 28th.
He says this modem is just the beginning: “Apple C1 is the beginning of a long -term strategy that will allow Apple to innovate and optimize the Apple Modem system,” Apple says.
What is interesting to all this is that this investment comes at a cost and not just $ 500 billion. The creation of products in the US is expensive. Apple could make it cheaper (and will do for many products) in China, India, Vietnam and elsewhere.
Apple’s commitment to the US was probably no doubt, but the latest expenses are an impressive commitment.
