Apple Shifts Some Mac Mini Production To Texas In Major US Manufacturing Push

It's been half a century since Apple's humble beginning as a garage-based operation that saw co-founders Steve Job and Steve Wozniak crank out the Apple 1, a computer that was hand-built in Los Altos, California (and now fetches enormous sums at auction). A lot has changed since then, with the bulk of Apple's products now assembled overseas and shipped back to the U.S. However, some Mac mini models are going to be built in the U.S. for the first time ever as part of what Apple is calling a "significant expansion" to its factory operations in Houston, Texas.

That is the same location where Apple's longtime manufacturing partner Foxconn began producing advanced Apple Intelligence servers last year for the first time. Those servers include logic boards that are produced onsite and then deployed around the world. Apple says its server production is ahead of ...