Apple to Begin Manufacturing Some Mac Minis in the US

Apple to Shift Mac Mini Production to US in Response to Trump Administration

In a bid to comply with the Trump administration’s call for increased domestic investment, Apple has announced plans to move some of its Mac Mini production to the United States. The manufacturing is scheduled to commence later this year at a Foxconn facility in north Houston, Texas, which currently assembles Apple’s AI servers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook expressed the company’s commitment to American manufacturing, stating, “We’re proud to significantly expand our footprint in Houston with the production of Mac Mini starting later this year. We began shipping advanced AI servers from Houston ahead of schedule, and we’re excited to accelerate that work even further.”

As part of Apple’s pledge to invest $600 billion in the US over the next four years, the move aims to avoid a 25 percent tariff threatened by President Donald Trump on products manufactured overseas. However, most of this spending does not directly relate to expanding domestic production.

Apple’s chief operating officer Sabih Khan revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the objective is to scale up Mac Mini production in the US to meet local demand. Despite this, the company will continue manufacturing thousands of the desktop computers in Asia. While Apple started producing some Mac Pro computers in Austin, Texas, in 2013, production at that facility has decreased due to low demand.

Although the Mac Mini represents Apple’s most affordable desktop computer, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the company’s total sales and less than 5 percent of global Mac sales. Apple remains optimistic about expanding Mac Mini production in Houston due to higher and more consistent demand compared to the Mac Pro. However, both products are only a fraction of the 240 million iPhones sold annually by the company, and there are currently no plans to shift iPhone production from Asia to the US.