Apple is bringing Mac mini manufacturing house

Apple will begin assembling Mac mini in america from later this yr. Foxconn will assemble the pc at its facility in Houston, Texas.

The assembled items will primarily serve native demand.

Made in US Mac mini coming later in 2026

Apple primarily assembles its merchandise, together with iPhones and Macs, in China, India, Vietnam and Malaysia. Mac minis are primarily assembled in Vietnam and China. 

Regardless of america being one in every of Apple’s largest markets, the corporate has traditionally averted large-scale home meeting as a consequence of increased labor and operational prices.

Apple COO Sabih Khan confirmed plans to assemble the Mac mini within the US in an interview with The Wall Road Journal. The transfer is part of Apple’s dedication to speculate as much as $600 billion within the US by 2029. 

As a part of this, the corporate has additionally promised to make 100% of iPhones and Apple Watch cowl glass within the US. Corning is making the world’s largest smartphone glass manufacturing line at its Harrodsburg facility to realize this.

Not a full-scale manufacturing effort

Native manufacturing of the Mac mini received’t dramatically alter Apple’s international provide chain footprint, nevertheless it does sign a continued effort to diversify manufacturing and scale back overreliance on a single area. That mentioned, the Mac mini stays a comparatively area of interest product inside Apple’s Mac lineup. It accounts for a smaller share of general shipments in comparison with the MacBook Air and MacBook Professional.

This is not going to be Apple’s first try at US-based manufacturing. It beforehand assembled the Mac Professional in Austin, Texas, in 2019, although that effort remained comparatively restricted in scale. The upcoming Mac mini meeting seems to observe an identical mannequin, specializing in choose configurations quite than a full manufacturing shift. 

The transfer ought to assist Apple offset tariff pressures, which may, in flip, ease the influence of upper labor and operational prices tied to US-based meeting.

Rajesh has been writing about client know-how for over a decade, with a robust concentrate on iPhones, Macs and Apple’s ecosystem. He enjoys digging into Apple software program updates, {hardware} adjustments, and discovering new Mac apps that make work sooner and extra pleasing.