Apple and Intel are planning an alliance to produce chips in the United States, in a move that could reshape the contract manufacturing business known as foundry work.
According to thelec.net, President Trump said that Apple has reached a deal with Intel for U.S. chip production. The report frames the announcement as coming from the president himself, signaling political interest in bringing more semiconductor manufacturing onto American soil.
The partnership would pair Apple, one of the world's largest chip designers, with Intel, a company that has been working to build up its own contract manufacturing arm. Intel designs and makes processors, but it has increasingly sought to manufacture chips for outside customers as well.
According to KED Global, the Apple-Intel alliance is expected to intensify the foundry battle with Samsung and TSMC. Those two firms — Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung — currently dominate the business of manufacturing advanced chips designed by other companies. A tie-up between Apple and Intel could give Intel a marquee customer and a stronger position against those established leaders.
The sources do not detail the financial terms, timeline, or which specific chips the partnership would cover.
Why it matters: Advanced chips power everything from smartphones to artificial intelligence, and their manufacturing is concentrated in a handful of Asian companies. A major U.S. production alliance between two of the industry's biggest names could shift where the world's most important technology gets built — and who controls it.