Apple is paying Broadcom $30 billion to build 15 billion US-made chips
A new multiyear deal, the biggest yet under Apple's American Manufacturing Program, expands a Broadcom chip plant in Fort Collins that has been running since Hewlett-Packard built it in 1978. The jobs it adds number in the hundreds.
Apple is spending $30 billion with Broadcom to build 15 billion chips. The new jobs number in the hundreds.
Apple is spending more than $30 billion with Broadcom to build over 15 billion chips in the United States. The deal expands a Broadcom plant in Fort Collins, Colorado that traces back to Hewlett-Packard in 1978, and Apple calls it the largest commitment yet under its American Manufacturing Program. The jobs it creates number in the hundreds.
The cutting-edge components built in Fort Collins are essential to delivering the incredible performance and connectivity our customers expect.
What Broadcom is actually building
The money goes toward advanced radio frequency components, including FBAR filters, plus the wireless connectivity technology that lets an iPhone talk to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks. Broadcom is putting $1.5 billion of that into expanding and modernizing the Fort Collins facility itself. It is a multiyear agreement, announced July 8, 2026, with no fixed end date disclosed.
A plant with a longer history than the press release lets on
Fort Collins has been making chips since Hewlett-Packard opened the site in 1978. HP spun the operation off as Agilent in 1999, Agilent's semiconductor unit became Avago Technologies in 2005, and Avago bought Broadcom's name along with the company in 2015. Around 1,600 people already work there. A 2023 Apple-Broadcom deal was already supporting more than 1,100 of those jobs before this one.
The number that is easy to miss
One deal inside a bigger pattern
This is not Apple's only American Manufacturing Program commitment. The company has also signed suppliers including Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics, and opened a lab in Boulder, Colorado in 2024 to design AirPods Pro 3. Apple frames all of it against a $600 billion, four-year U.S. investment pledge made in 2025. Broadcom's stock rose almost 5 percent the day the deal was announced, more than any single job number moved.
Why a build studio cares
We put a hard number in our own guarantee: reply within 24 hours or the website fee is refunded, no exceptions. That number matters because anyone can check whether we hit it. A dollar figure like $30 billion attached to a chip order is a different kind of claim, it describes spending, not an outcome you can verify a year from now. When a number in an announcement can't be checked against anything later, that's worth noticing, in Apple's announcements or in ours.
Next step: read Apple's announcement directly, and the Colorado Sun's coverage of the Fort Collins plant's history and local reaction.