Report: Apple Agreed to Intel Chips Amid White House Tariff Talks
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Report: Apple Agreed to Intel Chips Amid White House Tariff Talks
Apple faced pressure from the White House to use Intel's chipmaking plants while it was negotiating relief from semiconductor tariffs last summer, reports The Wall Street Journal ($). In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports – a levy that would have raised costs across Apple's product line.
Read the original note in the following link: Apple achieved the 100% tariff exemption for chips thanks to a supply agreement with Intel Apple would have avoided the 100% semiconductor tariff that the Donald Trump administration imposed in August 2025 thanks largely to a manufacturing agreement with Intel, according to a revelation from the Wall Street Journal. And it is that the New York newspaper states that the White House considered Apple’s …
As we saw last year, Apple had to scramble to deal with the massive tariffs imposed by the president…
The real story behind the Apple/Intel chips deal? It reportedly started at the White House.
Before Apple agreed to work with Intel on chip manufacturing, the partnership reportedly took shape during White House talks over tariff exemptions. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)
Report suggests the US gov may have 'urged' Apple into Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs, at almost the same time it took a $9 billion stake in blue team stock
A report from The Wall Street Journal tells the tale of Tim Cook's visit to the White House last summer, in which the Apple chief attempted to persuade the administration to abandon plans to impose tariffs on 100% of all semiconductor imports.Apple was eventually granted an exemption to the tariffs, in return for a commitment to invest $100 billion into US manufacturing efforts. However, the WSJ says that US president Donald Trump and US commerc…
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