Oh, Apple, you absolute overachievers. Just when we thought the biggest flex was titanium and camera bumps, they went full “let’s rewire the supply chain.”
Apple just announced it’s increasing its U.S. investment commitment to $600 billion over four years, and it’s rolling out something called the American Manufacturing Program (AMP). Yes, it sounds like a feature coming in iOS 26.2, but it’s real-world stuff, not a toggle in Settings.
The fun part, AMP is basically Apple saying, “Cool, we’re making even more things in the U.S.” That includes plans for all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass to be produced in the U.S. (Kentucky, specifically, with Corning). So next time you tap your screen at 2 a.m. to doomscroll, know that glass has some serious hometown energy.
They’re also talking big about building out an end-to-end American silicon supply chain, plus expanding partners across multiple states. And yes, there’s a Houston facility angle too, servers that help power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute, which sounds like something you’d hear in a sci-fi movie right before the hero whispers, “It’s already inside the network.”
My take, I love seeing Apple invest in the boring-but-crucial stuff. Chips, glass, manufacturing capacity, these are the unsexy building blocks that make future iPhones, Macs, and whatever wizardry comes next actually possible. Also, any timeline that includes “mass production in 2026” is basically Apple telling us, “We’re cooking, stop peeking.”