Apple is committing an unspecified amount to Texas Instruments for its facility in Lehi and a new plant being built in Texas.
(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Texas Instruments facility is seen in Lehi on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
Apple is committing a portion of its $600 billion U.S. investment to advancing manufacturing in Utah for components used in its products.
The company announced Wednesday that an unspecified amount of its investment will go to Texas Instruments to support tool installations at the TI facility in Lehi, and a new site being built in Sherman, Texas.
The announcement follows Apple’s decision to increase its U.S. investment by $100 billion, on top of the $500 billion it had previously pledged. It also comes after a decade of pressure from President Donald Trump to start building Apple products in the U.S., according to the New York Times.
In May, the president threatened Apple and other phone manufacturers with a 25% tariff on products made outside the U.S., the Times reports.
Gov. Spencer Cox, in a post Wednesday on X, said the Apple investment “will support high-paying jobs, national security, and long-term economic strength in Utah.”
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, in a statement, said that “bringing investment back to the U.S. is a big win. Apple’s investment highlights Utah’s growing role in advanced manufacturing and Utah companies stand ready to support and build on this momentum. This is exactly the kind of strategic investment our country and state need.”
Apple said the expansion will allow more components for iPhones shipped across the U.S. and globally to be made in Utah.
The company refers to both the Lehi site and the Sherman location under construction as “home” to its most advanced process technologies.
“These facilities will manufacture critical foundational semiconductors used for Apple products, including iPhone devices shipped in the U.S. and around the world,” Apple said in a news release.
While all U.S. states are expected to see job growth from Apple’s expanded commitment, Utah is one of 10 states where the company plans what it calls a “significant expansion” over the next four years.
The effort is part of Apple’s move to bring more of its supply chain to the U.S. and “incentivize global companies to manufacture even more critical components in the United States,” the company said.
At the Lehi facility, which Cox called the “greatest single economic investment in Utah history” at its groundbreaking in 2023, bare wafers are turned into silicon chips.
The $11 billion facility was projected to create more than 800 jobs. Three months after Texas Instruments celebrated an award of up to $1.61 billion in federal money to help it build semiconductor factories, the company laid off workers at its Lehi facility in March.
At Wednesday’s Oval Office announcement of the Apple investment, Apple CEO Tim Cook presented Trump with a glass engraving from Kentucky. The 24-karat gold base for the glass, Cook said, came from Utah.
Tribune reporters Addy Baird, Emily Anderson Stern and Robert Gehrke contributed to this report.