Apple will purchase well over 100 million chips from TSMC’s Arizona facility this year, a significant increase from 2025 volumes as the company expands its U.S. manufacturing presence.
Apple announced the increased purchases from TSMC Arizona on February 24, coinciding with its reveal that it will double the size of its Houston manufacturing campus — enabling U.S. production of the Mac mini desktop computer for the first time.
Corina Vanek for Arizona Republic:
100 million chips is a drop in the bucket for Apple’s needs. The iPhone maker announced in August 2025 that U.S. manufacturers, including TSMC, were on track to produce 19 billion chips for Apple products in 2025. Apple bought “tens of millions” of chips from TSMC Arizona last year, the company said.
Apple will also be Amkor’s first and largest customer when it opens in Peoria. Apple is an investor in Amkor’s $7 billion plant, which was part of Apple’s overall $600 billion commitment to investing in the United States over the next four years, according to an Apple announcement in 2025.
Amkor will package and test Apple components created at the TSMC Arizona factory. The first manufacturing plant is scheduled for completion in mid-2027, with production starting in early 2028.
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We can thank Biden’s Chips Act for this.
Timeline:
TSMC began construction on its Arizona fab in April 2021.
President Joe Biden signed Chips Act into law on August 9, 2022.
The chip act started under Trump in October, 2019.
Biden took the credit.
It will take time to change Apple’s massive supply chain. And keep from raising product prices. The big impediment is Taiwan’s closely guarded advanced chip manufacturing.. used in iPhone chips. One reason why Apple’s products are cutting-edge.
The Biden chip deal was with Frito-Lay.
What a fool and idiot.