Apple has committed over $30 billion to Broadcom in a multi-year deal to produce more than 15 billion US-made chips, marking its largest American manufacturing pledge to date. The deal funds a $1.5 billion expansion of Broadcom's Fort Collins, Colorado plant, which will produce advanced radio-frequency components including FBAR filters and wireless chips for cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The agreement is part of Apple's broader $600 billion US investment plan and builds on an existing custom-silicon ASIC deal running through 2031. The move is framed as building an end-to-end silicon supply chain in America, though Apple simultaneously lobbies to use Chinese memory chips in China-sold devices and continues efforts to design its own connectivity silicon.
