Apple has restated that Mac mini assembly in the United States will begin later this year, with Foxconn building the desktop at a facility in Houston, Texas.
The statement came in a press release about Apple's latest American Manufacturing Program commitments. Apple reiterated the plan rather than announcing a new one.
Earlier this year, Sabih Khan, Apple's operations chief, said Mac minis assembled in the U.S. would primarily serve the U.S. market. Production in Asia would continue for orders placed abroad.
That split is the detail worth holding onto. Houston adds a second place where Mac minis are built. It does not replace the first. Foxconn, a contract manufacturer that already makes Apple hardware, is the builder, so the change is about geography, not about who holds the screwdriver.
The wording also deserves a careful read. Assembly is the final stage of manufacturing, where finished parts become a finished machine. It is not the whole supply chain, and a Houston line says nothing by itself about where the components come from.
Repeating the commitment inside a broader manufacturing announcement keeps the Mac mini on the record as a concrete example of the program. It is a small, self-contained desktop, which makes it an easy product to point to.
The open question is the word "primarily." If Houston units mostly go to American buyers, how many of the Mac minis sold in the U.S. will actually come from Texas, and how many will still arrive from Asia?