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Posted by haunter 11 hours ago

Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston(www.apple.com)
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thinkingtoilet 11 hours ago|
Others need to follow. It's strange that we don't view the manufacturing of advanced electronics as a matter of national security.
mattnewton 10 hours ago|
The government is slowly waking up to how important chips are and how far behind domestic sources have fallen from foreign (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese) sources. That's what the 2022 CHIPS act was about.

These things just take a lot of time, there are tremendous headwinds to fight, and the US government + US media increasingly seems unable to see through projects past the next election cycle.

ChrisMarshallNY 9 hours ago||
What folks don't talk about, is that the reason for all the offshoring, is good old-fashioned American Greed™.

Lots of billionaires in the US, got that way, by exporting all their production to China. Because they did it, lots of lower-tier people had to do the same, or go out of business.

Since we worship billionaires, that little bit never seems to get mentioned, as it makes them look bad.

The only cure is to cost some of those billionaires money.

Ain't gonna happen.

MarsIronPI 9 hours ago||
> The only cure is to cost some of those billionaires money.

But that was the entire point of the Trump tariffs? Or am I missing something here?

Tyrubias 7 hours ago||
The money is not coming out of the billionaires’ pockets. Tariffs are ultimately a tax on American consumers and small businesses. Large businesses owned by billionaires just increased prices. Now, if the government is forced to repay tariffs, then they will be refunded to the companies. Consumers and small businesses who were forced to close will get no benefit. In the end, whether the tariffs are kept or the tariffs are struck down, the consumer gets screwed and the billionaires get richer.
stevev 4 hours ago||
Nothing against American ingenuity, but when situations like this occur, quality often declines for a time. The process may be replicated from its original source, but the key difference lies in the workers’ experience—something the Chinese have already mastered.
yndoendo 10 hours ago||
While shopping I look where items are produced and by whom company. When I see an item is manufactured in Texas I put it back on the shelf and keep walking. That State is too politically corrupt for me to financially support, same with Florida.
tombert 10 hours ago||
Don't most big tech companies have an office in Dallas or Austin? I remember that the MS campus was huge when I lived in Dallas.

If "can't have been made in any capacity in Texas" is your criteria that might be pretty difficult.

prmoustache 7 hours ago|||
Also US manufacturing is synonymous with shitty quality and has been for at least 5 decades.
platevoltage 2 hours ago||
I do this when I buy things on Ebay. I'm not sending my money into those states unless I absolutely have to.
ncrmro 6 hours ago||
H-Town hold it down!
techpression 11 hours ago||
Didn’t know they were also pushing education so heavily, I mean it makes sense, but still great to see that they don’t expect skills and knowledge to appear out of thin air and is putting money to improving it.
SpaceManNabs 11 hours ago||
I understand apple's push for US manufacturing in general but what do they mean by AI servers? I thought apple's current AI strategy is using other AI models?
snazz 9 hours ago||
Private Cloud Compute uses their own hardware: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
SpaceManNabs 9 hours ago||
Thanks! I wonder how they enforce retention of personal data if a user adds identifying data and they use a model from anthropic or wtv like others said. maybe that is the wrong question at all if they are using their own models but i thought they didn't. Apple's AI strategy on the whole sounds coherent to me but the specifics are super confusing.
jjice 11 hours ago|||
I believe they're choosing to run Google models on their hardware.
tibbydudeza 11 hours ago||
They are using M workstation class chips for inference on their own blades since Google's models are meant run on TPU's it would not have been difficult to port it.

They also use Anthropic internally (code/marketing/sales) which runs their models on Cerebras so they also seem to be agnostic so runs on the same Apple hardware.

cod1r 4 hours ago||
HOUSTON REPRESENT!!
tamimio 9 hours ago||
This feels like tariff evasion tactics, I am not against it tho, I think apple is handling it well.
j45 9 hours ago||
In addition to Mac Mini, hoping more Mac Studios are able to be built including more regular updates.

Either of these devices (per watt of computing power) could become a home appliance pretty easily.

whalesalad 10 hours ago|
Has anyone seen this documentary? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory
forinti 8 hours ago|
Very interesting documentary. It really highlights the clash of cultures.
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