Key Points
- Apple is launching a new manufacturing training academy in Detroit.
- The program will offer workshops on advanced manufacturing and AI to small and medium-sized businesses.
- The move is part of Apple’s effort to highlight its U.S. investments amid pressure from President Trump.
- Apple’s other U.S. investments include assembling AI servers in Texas and buying chips from a factory in Arizona.
Apple is opening a new manufacturing training program in downtown Detroit. This move comes as the company faces intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to bring more jobs to the United States.
The new Apple Manufacturing Academy, run in partnership with Michigan State University, will offer workshops on advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence to small and medium-sized businesses. Apple engineers will participate in the training, which is aimed at building up the next generation of American manufacturers.
The announcement is part of a larger public effort by Apple to highlight its U.S. investments and appease the White House. President Trump has repeatedly called on the company to move its iPhone production to the U.S. and has implemented tariffs that could raise Apple’s costs.
Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Sabih Khan, said the company is “thrilled to help even more businesses implement smart manufacturing.” This follows Apple’s promise in February to spend over $500 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which also includes plans to assemble AI servers in Houston and buy chips from a new factory in Arizona.
Despite these investments, the Trump administration has continued to push Apple to assemble iPhones domestically—a move experts say would be extremely difficult and expensive. This new academy in Detroit appears to be another step by Apple in demonstrating its commitment to the U.S. manufacturing sector, without relocating its massive iPhone production line.
