
Customers wait outside for the new iPhone 16 and the Apple Watch Series 10 at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on September 20, 2024 in New York City, US. — AFP
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Apple said on Monday that it would spend more than $ 500 billion in the United States in the next four years and hire 20,000 people, President Donald Trump immediately took the announcement.
Dev Dev, a resident of Silicon Valley, said it was his “biggest commitment to now,” which tech companies fight to dominate the development of artificial intelligence technology.
The US axis comes when Apple is under rapid pressure from Trump’s trade battles with China, which is the iPhone Dev’s central manufacturing center, and can be slapped by more imports of imports through Washington.
Trump, who has forced US companies to move manufacturing home, has claimed that their administration is to thank the investment.
“The reason for this, confidence in what we are doing, without which they will not invest ten cents. Thank you Tim Cook and Apple !!!” Trump wrote his truth in big letters on social platforms.
The project is primarily a faster pace of projects announced in 2021, when a company founded by Steve Jobs said it would invest $ 430 billion in the United States and increase 20,000 jobs over the next five years Will
With Trump’s prices threats, Cook “smooth water for Apple”, “Cook continues to prove that he is 10 % of the politicians and 90 % CEO.”
However, US plans were not indicating that Apple was transmitting manufacturing far from China, Ivas added.
The announcement came a few days after Trump and Apple’s chief executive officer Tim Cook’s meeting at the Oval Office.
Apple said Monday that its 20,000 new rent will be focused mostly on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.
It announced plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas in 2026 that will submit servers that “plays a key role in strengthening Apple Intelligence” – a part of the company’s AI product – and Will create “thousands of jobs”.
There is also an Apple Manufacturing Academy Cards in Detroit that “helps companies transfer modern manufacturing.”
“We are happy with the future of American innovation, and we are proud of our longtime US investment with this commitment of $ 500 billion for the future of our country,” said CEO of Apple.
Apple’s suppliers already manufacture silicon in 24 factories in 12 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.
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In January, Cook praised Apple’s “best quarters so far” as it recorded a.36.3 billion in quarterly profit.
The United States was Apple’s largest market with $ 56.2 billion revenue, while Europe had a strong growth of $ 33.9 billion.
The company hopes that consumers will be attracted to buy the latest iPhone models because of their new AI powers.
Along with Apple, other tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon believe that Generative AI options are the next chapter of computing and are hiking to avoid being left behind.
After Monday’s announcement, Trump has come up a few days later that Apple plans to invest in the United States “hundreds of billions of dollars” because he targeted his tariff plan in promoting the US economy –
Trump suggested that more companies planned more and more investment in the United States without any name.
The Republican president, as a commercial weapon, has used taxes as customs duties on imported goods, which has imposed 10 % levies on goods from China and threatened them on products, including semidicide, cars and pharmaceuticals. Is
Their administration argues that more costs will encourage companies to prepare in the United States instead. Critics say revenue can increase prices for consumers.