15 billion chips, one decade: Inside the Apple-Broadcom manufacturing deal

Apple’s new multi-year partnership expansion with chipmaker Broadcom, worth more than $30 billion, will produce more than 15 billion chips made in the United States, according to a CNBC report. A major share of the agreement includes a $1.5 billion physical expansion of Broadcom’s manufacturing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, though Apple has not shared an exact timeline for when the new factory lines will come online.

Broadcom, a longtime supplier of the wireless components that let iPhones and iPads connect to cellular networks, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, will also develop specialised “custom ASIC silicon products” for multiple generations of Apple hardware through 2031, citing a security filing from the company. These circuits are valued in the industry for being optimised to handle heavy AI workloads.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the commitment would allow the company to scale up operations and secure its Fort Collins manufacturing footprint for the next decade.

The deal forms part of Apple’s $600 billion, four-year US investment strategy announced in 2025, and is the single largest pledge made under Apple’s American Manufacturing Program to date.