Amid all the noise about what's going wrong with the economy, one of the world's biggest companies is quietly building a lot more of it here.
Apple expanded its American Manufacturing Program on Thursday with four new partners, including TDK — a 30-year Apple supplier — which will manufacture sensors in the U.S. for the first time ever. Those sensors, used in iPhone camera stabilization, will ship in devices sold globally.
Bosch will produce integrated circuits for crash detection and activity tracking in Apple devices at TSMC's Camas, Washington facility. Two additional semiconductor suppliers are joining to support high-performance computing production.
Apple launched the program in August 2025 alongside a commitment to $100 billion in U.S. spending. Since then, it has already exceeded its initial chip-sourcing target — purchasing more than 20 billion chips from factories in 12 states.
In 2026, Apple is on track to purchase more than 100 million advanced chips from TSMC's Arizona fab, which only entered production this year. That's a meaningful volume for a facility that represents one of the largest foreign direct investments in U.S. history.
The company's U.S. operations currently support more than 450,000 jobs across all 50 states. Apple has also committed to directly hiring 20,000 more people in R&D, silicon engineering, AI, and software development.
For TSMC's Arizona campus — which has faced questions about whether it could compete with fabs in Taiwan — Apple's commitment provides exactly the kind of anchor customer needed to justify the full build-out. Two more TSMC fabs are planned for the Phoenix area.
The U.S. semiconductor manufacturing boom is happening slowly, expensively, and not without headaches. But it is happening. Over $560 billion in domestic manufacturing investment is now committed across chips, EVs, pharmaceuticals, and defense — projects that will take years to complete but are actively under construction.
Apple's manufacturing expansion isn't charity. It's good business that also happens to be good for the country. Those two things can exist at the same time.
