“The dedicated facility will provide hands-on training in advanced manufacturing techniques to students, supplier employees, and American businesses of all sizes,” Apple said.
Creating opportunity in manufacturing
Apple’s US investment plan includes directly hiring 20,000 people over four years, with a focus on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI. Apple has particularly focused its job-reshoring efforts on such high-tech, high-value tasks and revealed it has now sourced more than 20 billion US-made chips from 24 factories across the US for use in its products.
Third-party partners are all aboard: GlobalWafers has begun production at its new $4 billion bare silicon wafer facility in Sherman, TX. Apple will also purchase 100 million advanced chips produced by TSMC at its new Arizona facility this year.
