Apple Austin Campus

Overview

Apple Designs Chips and Runs Operations From Northwest Austin

Apple has been in Austin since 1992. In August 2016 it moved into a 1.1 million-square-foot campus in north Austin, and in December 2018 it announced a $1B, 133-acre campus on West Parmer Lane with 50 acres of preserved open space, room for 5,000 initial and up to 15,000 total employees, against 6,200 Austin staff at the time. The full campus is planned at about 3 million square feet in 12 office and amenity buildings.

By August 2025 three completed office buildings on the new campus exceeded 1 million square feet and three more were under construction. Teams in Austin cover hardware engineering, silicon development, operations and supply chain, software and services, AppleCare support, sales and corporate functions.

Apple's Austin chip designers sit inside the Austin semiconductor cluster with Samsung, AMD, NXP and Tesla, and near Dell in Round Rock.

Apple silicon

Designed in Austin, Fabricated in Arizona, Taiwan and Austin

Apple expanded Austin into a chip design base in 2010. Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies, said in 2016 that the Austin team was "designing chips that go into all the devices we sell," from A-series iPhone chips to M-series Mac chips.

Most Apple silicon is still made by TSMC in Taiwan, and most iPhones are assembled in China by Foxconn and other contractors. Apple is moving part of that work to the US: it expects to buy well over 100 million advanced chips from TSMC's Arizona fab in 2026, and said US suppliers were on track to make more than 19 billion chips for Apple products in 2025.

Texas plants appear in Apple's August 2025 American Manufacturing Program, part of a $600B US commitment.

Texas footprint

Houston Builds Servers and Fort Worth Will Supply Magnets

Apple's Houston plant, a 250,000-square-foot factory, began shipping AI servers for Apple's Private Cloud Compute in October 2025, ahead of a 2026 target. In February 2026 Apple said a second Houston factory would start Mac mini production later in 2026, the first Mac mini made in the US.

In July 2025 Apple committed $500M to MP Materials for recycled rare earth magnets from the Independence plant in Fort Worth, with shipments starting in 2027 and a recycling line at Mountain Pass, California. China makes about 90% of the world's rare earth magnets and tightened export controls on rare earths in April 2025.

The Mac Pro, assembled in Austin by Flex since 2013, was Apple's only US-assembled computer until Apple discontinued it on March 26, 2026.

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