In August last year, Apple announced its American Manufacturing Program (AMP), aiming to bring its supply chain and manufacturing partners to US soil.
Today the company revealed new AMP members, including Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK and Qnity Electronics. These join initial partners: Amkor, Applied Materials, Broadcom, Coherent, Corning, GlobalFoundries, GlobalWafers America, MP Materials, Samsung and Texas Instruments.
TDK will make sensors for Apple in the US for the first time, including iPhone features like camera stabilization. Bosch and TSMC will work together with Apple to produce integrated circuits for Bosch’s new sensing hardware at TSMC Washington, circuits needed for features such as crash detection, activity detection and elevation in Apple products.
Cirrus Logic and GlobalFoundries will create “new semiconductor process technologies” at the GlobalFoundries facility in Malta, New York. This will “enable key technologies for Apple products,” allowing Cirrus Logic to develop mixed-signal solutions for “a range of Apple applications,” including advanced circuitry to power Face ID systems.
Qnity Electronics and HD MicroSystems will provide “cutting-edge materials and technologies essential for semiconductor manufacturing and advanced electronics,” reads the official press release. This collaboration is also said to “bring groundbreaking innovations in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, bolstering domestic manufacturing of critical components and strengthening American leadership in advanced technology.”
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