Apple to build new, insanely powerful Mac Pro in Texas after securing tariff relief

MacDailyNews ^ | September 23, 2019

[Swordmaker]

As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas. This latest generation Mac Pro, which was unveiled at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference in June, will begin production soon at the same Austin facility where Mac Pro has been made since 2013.

The new Mac Pro will include components designed, developed and manufactured by more than a dozen American companies for distribution to US customers. Manufacturers and suppliers across Arizona, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Vermont, including Intersil and ON Semiconductor, are providing advanced technology. The US manufacturing of Mac Pro is made possible following a federal product exclusion Apple is receiving for certain necessary components. The value of American-made components in the new Mac Pro is 2.5 times greater than in Apple’s previous generation Mac Pro.

Apple’s domestic investment supports 450,000 jobs at US suppliers. Apple’s domestic investment supports 450,000 jobs at US suppliers. “The Mac Pro is Apple’s most powerful computer ever and we’re proud to be building it in Austin. We thank the administration for their support enabling this opportunity,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “We believe deeply in the power of American innovation. That’s why every Apple product is designed and engineered in the U.S., and made up of parts from 36 states, supporting 450,000 jobs with US suppliers, and we’re going to continue growing here.”

[Swordmaker]

They thank “this” administration instead of the Trump administration. Why, because it’s on MacDailyNews’ site (Just guessing that the apple engaged aren’t fans of Trump)

The editors and publishers of MacDailyNews are conservative. . . And regularly get blistered by the Democrats and Progressives who post there.

[Swordmaker]

Macs will be moving to Apples own chips soon and dropping Intel.. not sure when but I would expect it sooner than later

They won’t be shifting for the high-end Macs, but likely for the lower end.

[Swordmaker]

What balderdash. The tariff incentivized Apple to make them here. The opposite of the titles inference.

Apple has been manufacturing MacPro in Austin Texas since 2013. Nothing to do with tariffs, The tariff exemptions are for those few parts included in the new MacPro that still come from China. The old MacPro had fewer than 10% imported parts. I don’t know what percentage of the new MacPro is made with imported components.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I have an Intel CPU in my old PC, which is limited to 8 gigabytes of RAM. I really want a new PC with one of those newer AMD Ryzen and at least 16 gigabytes.

Maybe after Christmas. sigh

[raygunfan]

ozempic?

[HamiltonJay]

Oh I am sure they will... Its an all or nothing proposition, just like when they left Motorola chips for Intel. Apple will not keep 2 run times for different CPUs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-said-to-plan-move-from-intel-to-own-mac-chips-from-2020

[central_va]

The tariff exemptions are for those few parts included in the new MacPro that still come from China.

Define few. I applaud the manufacturing here but Apple HAS A LONG WAY TO GO. Bring it all home. Make iphones here. Do it. Take down the suicide nets.

[Swordmaker]

Show me the needle moving towards Republicans on Austin city council and in judicial races for Travis county.

Will people be moving to Austin or will this strictly be existinglocal labor?

From what I understand, they are using the same labor force that was there from building the 2013 MacPro there.

Austin’s Democrat problem is because it’s America’s 11th largest city with the same issues of every other large city. . . They elect progressives for some irrational reason. One reason I can think of is that the city of Austin has a population of about 1 million of all ages, but over 100,000 of those are college students. That’s a huge block of rabidly liberal voters these days who can overwhelm any conservative leanings of full time native voters.

[Lockbox]

We need to place a giant billboard across from the plant reading:

Thank President Trump for your Great, High Paying Job!

[Swordmaker]

Define few. I applaud the manufacturing here but Apple HAS A LONG WAY TO GO. Bring it all home. Make iphones here. Do it. Take down the suicide nets.

Sigh. How many times do YOU have to be told that FoxConn has a far lower suicide rate than the general population of China itself, or the suicide rate of US IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES among young people in the same age demographics. . . By about a factor of TEN? In addition, central_va, you’ve been told multiple times—what is it now, about 200 times now?— that that spate of 18 suicides had not one thing to do with Apple’s assembly lines but instead occurred at a assembly plants over 150 miles away from any plants working on Apple products at plants variously making Sony Playstations, HP computers, Microsoft Xboxes, and Nokia cellular phones. You’ve been TOLD this hundreds of times on multiple threads, with linked proof, and yet you continue to LIE and LIE and LIE, posting the LIE time and time again, just to make Apple, who had NOTHING to do with what happened at another company, look bad. Since you do it knowingly, and deliberately, Shame on you.

[dfwgator]

I was thinking more, like that “Pilot” song.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

How quick an Google get their Quantum gizmo going and render security obsolete?

[Dr. Sivana]

Since Mac has long since stopped using the Motorola processor line in favor of Intel, how is a Mac more “insanely powerful” than the equivalent PC?

It is really hard to find a PC workstation with the same horsepower as the upcoming MacPro, as it uses server and datacenter level processors at its heart. Historically, Macs have not come with the best graphics options. Some would argue that the MacOS has less overhead and flotsam than a Windows 10 system would, though I believe that is less true than it once was.

As always, Apple is happy to charge a premium for its products.

[Dr. Sivana]

Macs will be moving to Apples own chips soon and dropping Intel.. not sure when but I would expect it sooner than later

Not in the Mac Pro workstations they won't. Apples A series chips make nifty phones, and generate less heat per operation than Intel's, but it won't be matching high end Xeon performance anytime soon.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Make American Graters Again

Make America Grate Again

[Secret Agent Man]

yeah it looks like a cheese grater.

[nvskibum]

>>>Its Magic (TM)<<<

This may make you believe it is A Kind of Magic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p_1QSUsbsM

[Yo-Yo]

Find and price out an “equivalent” PC to the new MacPro. Make sure it truly IS an equivalent professional grade workstation. You may find it very difficult to do.

Here's a PC equivalent of the low end Mac Pro 8 core:

https://silentpc.com/servers/xeon-w-server

And here is a 28 core:

https://www.velocitymicro.com/blog/28-core-intel-xeon-w-3175x-pc-benchmarked/

[wildcard_redneck]

But tariffs done work!

[IndispensableDestiny]

It includes a security chip with a secure enclave. Among other things, it’s used to encrypt the filesystem. Secure enclave is what gives law enforcement fits on the iPhones.