Apple spent US$60bn with 9000 manufacturers in 2018

Just over a year ago, component manufacturer Finisar was awarded $390 million from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund. To expand production of a critical part of the TrueDepth camera system, introduced with iPhone X, Finisar turned an unoccupied building in Sherman, Texas into a bustling operation full of people who will supply that future business.
In 2018, the company has revealed that it spent $60bn with 9,000 American component suppliers and companies, an increase of more than 10% percent from 2017, supporting more than 450,000 jobs.
The Texan plant will produce vertical-cavity-surface-emitting lasers - or VCSELs - for Apple, powering breakthrough features of the latest iPhones and iPads, including Face ID and Animoji. VCSEL wafers are nearly as thin as a human hair and contain hundreds of layers measuring only a few atoms in thickness.