Apple Opens Houston Manufacturing Training Center, Mac Mini Production Set for Texas

Key facts

• Apple opened a free manufacturing training center in Houston on Thursday.
• Mac mini computers will begin production at the same Texas facility later this year.
• The Advanced Manufacturing Center is 20,000 square feet and located within a Foxconn campus.
• The center offers no-cost instruction to small- and medium-sized businesses.
• Curriculum covers machine-learning-driven quality control, advanced automation, and printed circuit board assembly design.
• This is Apple's second U.S. manufacturing training site; the first opened in Detroit in August 2025.
• Officials at the opening included Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Senator Ted Cruz, Houston Mayor John Whitmire, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
• A newly built 170,000-square-foot section of the Foxconn facility houses the Mac mini assembly line.
• Apple invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Houston site in less than nine months.
• Foxconn bears the cost of constructing assembly lines, and Apple agrees to buy the output.
• Tim Cook will hand over CEO role to John Ternus on Sept. 1 and become executive chairman.
• Mac mini has gained interest as a platform for running AI models at home.
• Mac revenue reached $10.35 billion in the June quarter.
• The Detroit-based Apple Manufacturing Academy has helped nearly 1,000 workers, students, and entrepreneurs.
• Apple plans to extend training to local college students in Houston.