Apple formally opened its 20,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston on Wednesday, where it already assembles AI servers and will begin making Mac mini computers later this year, the first time the desktop will be manufactured in the United States. Tim Cook said Apple invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the site in less than nine months, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used the event to cast the move as part of President Donald Trump's reshoring agenda and pointed to Apple's broader $600 billion American Manufacturing Program. Cook also said Apple sourced more than 20 billion chips from U.S. suppliers last year, including 100 million from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s facility in Arizona. The center is Apple's second U.S. manufacturing training hub after Detroit and offers free instruction in automation, machine-learning-driven quality control and other smart-manufacturing techniques to businesses, workers and students. The opening comes weeks before Cook moves from CEO to executive chairman on Sept. 1, with John Ternus set to take over, as Apple navigates tariff pressure while keeping most device production overseas and expanding manufacturing in India and Vietnam.