Made In The USA: Intel To Build World’s Smallest Chips In Arizona Desert. Intel still manufactures it's chips in the US.Intel Intel is building the world’s most advanced, high volume chip fabrication plant in the Arizona desert -- even as most of our electronics are produced overseas.
At a whopping cost of about $5 billion, "Fab 42" is scheduled to be completed in 2013 and will be set up to produce chips with parts only 14 nanometers wide, the Financial Times reported -- close to the thickness of cellular walls. A human hair is about 100,000 nanometers. For Intel, smaller parts means less heat and increased energy efficiency. Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class. But as of spoke, interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.