Trump says Apple will build chips with Intel in the US
The news that Apple had agreed to make its chips in the United States did not come from Apple. It came, on Thursday, from a post by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, announcing that the company had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips on American soil. Apple, for its part, said nothing.
That asymmetry is the most telling thing about the announcement. A commercial arrangement between the world’s most valuable company and a chipmaker the federal government partly owns was disclosed by the President rather than by either firm.
Neither Apple nor Intel had confirmed the specifics by the time Trump’s post went up, and the post itself was light on them: no volumes, no timeline, no which-chips, no dollar figure.
What is on the record is the trajectory that led here. Intel and Apple have been talking for more than a year. In May,...
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