Apple Begins Shipping American-Made AI Servers From Texas
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> Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan said on Thursday that the servers will power the company's Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute services. Apple is using its own silicon in its Apple Intelligence servers. "Our teams have done an incredible job accelerating work to get the new Houston factory up and running ahead of schedule and we plan to continue expanding the facility to increase production next year," Khan said in a statement. The Houston factory is on track to create thousands of jobs, Apple said. The Apple servers were previously manufactured overseas.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/apple-american-made-ai-servers-texas.html
[2] https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/09/24/2141256/intel-approaches-apple-for-potential-investment-amid-struggles
Do they have AI? (Score:2)
Based off all the AI they produce it might as well be a cardboard box factory. Do they have anything smarter than siri?
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The published a crude llm about a year ago that if scaled up would be similar to what everyone else is doing, but haven't published anything new since, as far as i'm aware. It's not terribly difficult to train your own ai these days, just that the gpu hours are expensive
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They have a number of models on Huggingface and are active still. Last model was uploaded 15 days ago: [1]https://huggingface.co/apple/m... [huggingface.co]
[1] https://huggingface.co/apple/models?p=0
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Lets hope enough outside people move to TX and FL to turn them blue.
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Why?
Houston is already blue (Score:2)
The [1]Houston area [city-data.com] is already blue af. This has been the case for many years.
The factory is in [2]north Houston [bing.com], just above Koreatown.
[1] https://www.city-data.com/city/Houston-Texas.html
[2] https://www.bing.com/maps/search?mepi=57~~Embedded~LargeMapLink&ty=18&v=2&sV=1&q=8702+Fairbanks+N+Houston+Rd%2C+Houston%2C+TX+77064&ppois=29.908333_-95.52044_8702+Fairbanks+N+Houston+Rd%2C+Houston%2C+TX+77064_~&cp=29.892175~-95.510567&lvl=13.2&style=r
new mac pro soon? as they have an server chip now? (Score:2)
new mac pro soon? as they have an server chip now?
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You don't need a server chip in a workstation.
Would be more interesting if Apple were to make a return to the "server market" with a new xServe.
Silicon still made in China? (Score:2)
Do they really make their cpus in the USA, or are they still made in China?
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ROC, not PRC, but yes.
There are no 3nm fabs in the US capable of producing them at volume.
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Taiwan, who is 2-3 years ahead of the USA in chip manufacturing technology.
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you mean 5-10. at least
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I was being charitable, and you are probably close than I was.
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Unlikely.
The US produced below 3nm nodes a long time ago.
It's a matter of market, and how quickly such a thing were to come to market in the US would be a function of how much money is available to bring it to market, and whether there is a need.
A fab can be brought up in 3-5 years.
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Technology, no. Ability to bring to market? Yes.
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Taiwan is at least one generation ahead of the USA in manufacturing.
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At volume, yes. That is, and has, been true for a long time.
In terms of the first produced wafers of any node of any density, almost all of them were done here in the US first.
IBM produced 2nm wafers in 2021.
I don't disagree with you on the volume- which is why I said, "tech, no. market, yes."
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The article says "assembled in the US".
So all the parts arrive from overseas and someone puts all the parts together with screws.
Like Dell and other white box PC manufacturers.
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Frankly, it's a fucking confusing set of terminology no matter how you swing it.
No assembled or manufactured product on this planet is sourced from a single country in its entirety.