Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year

Apple contiguous announced that Foxconn volition statesman assembling immoderate Mac mini computers astatine a mill successful Houston, Texas aboriginal this year.


In an interrogation with The Wall Street Journal, Apple's operations main Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of immoderate Mac mini units is portion of the company's previously-announced commitment to put $600 billion successful the U.S. by August 2029.

Mac mini units assembled successful the U.S. volition chiefly service the U.S. market, portion accumulation volition proceed successful Asia for orders abroad, according to Khan.

As the study notes, the Mac mini is simply a niche merchandise for Apple, with probe steadfast Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimating that the desktop machine accounted for lone 5% of Apple's planetary Mac income past year. In 2024, the Mac mini received its archetypal large redesign since 2010, on with M4 and M4 Pro chips.

In the U.S., the Mac mini starts astatine conscionable $599, but customers indispensable proviso their ain display, keyboard, and trackpad oregon mouse.

Apple began assembling its latest Mac Pro desktop machine successful Texas in 2019, during U.S. President Donald Trump's archetypal term, and the company's program to statesman assembling immoderate Mac mini units successful the U.S. comes during Trump's 2nd term.

The Wall Street Journal besides explored Apple's efforts to boost its U.S. spot production.


Apple plans to acquisition much than 100 cardinal chips Apple from TSMC's Arizona mill this year, according to the company's planetary caput of procurement David Tom.
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