Apple Says It Will Spend $30 Billion To Design US-Made Broadcom Chips (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/1744225/apple-says-it-will-spend-30-billion-to-design-us-made-broadcom-chips
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/08/business/apple-broadcom-chips
> The agreement with Broadcom will lead to the production of 15 million chips in United States and allow Broadcom to invest $1.5 billion to expand and modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is part of Apple's commitment in August to invest $600 billion as part of its "American Manufacturing Program" which it said is dedicated to bringing even more of the company's supply chain and advanced manufacturing back to the US.
[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-to-increase-spend-with-broadcom-to-produce-billions-more-us-chips/
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/08/business/apple-broadcom-chips
those are some expensive chips (Score:2)
Apple says it will spend $30 billion to ... lead to the production of 15 million chips in United States.
With a $2000 chip, how expensive will that phone be? Ready to finance your Apple phone?
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> Apple says it will spend $30 billion to ... lead to the production of 15 million chips in United States.
> With a $2000 chip, how expensive will that phone be? Ready to finance your Apple phone?
Likely just bad writting by CNN. Checked multiple other sources and they state "result in the production of at least 15 billion chips".
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Ok, even if it is 30 million chips, you are still looking at a very expensive device.
PR for the Orange Idiot (Score:2)
This is just PR to appeal directly to the orange moron slowly wasting away in the Oval Office. Designing wireless chips is a notoriously difficult and time consuming process, and Broadcom is one of the only chip design partners in the entire world even qualified to do so. Apple was always going to go to them for their, wi-fi, bluetooth, whatever it is they're replacing that's currently made by Qualcomm. "Made in America" just sounds good to the person they might want a personal favor from soon.
Broadcom does make chips (Score:2)
They acquired an old HP fab that did FBAR chips (ceramic resonators) If I remember right from school, these are for RF filtering. No semi's, so while technically they are making some small chips in the US, they are not the ones the general public would be thinking of.
I had a prof(RL Gunshor) in college in the 70's who did something similar with SAW(Surface Acoustic Wave) devices and I think these are an offshoot of the technology.
This is nonsensical (Score:2)
This article seems nonsensical to me. If Apple is designing the chips, how are they Broadcom chips? Either Apple is designing them (or has designed them), in which case they're Apple chips, and Apple is paying Broadcom to build and maintain fabs for them, or Broadcom is designing them, and Apple is paying them to make them in the U.S.
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Apparently Intel is a chip maker. Apparently. I need further confirmation to be sure.
Re: This is nonsensical (Score:2)
They own all the patents.