Remember those new iMacs with a label saying "Assembled in USA"? Well, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, there is going to be a lot more of those.
"We've been working for years on doing more and more in the U.S. Next year, we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States," said Cook in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams.
Note that Cook does not say which Macs will be assembled on Apple's home turf, but given that some iMacs already bear the aforementioned marking, the iMac line is a safe bet.
Apple does not have any manufacturing facilities, so the company will invest more than $100 million dollars with an unnamed partner.
The move follows Google's decision to manufacture its media streamer, the Nexus Q in the U.S., which Google itself described as an "experiment". Apple's decision to move some of its production back from China is another sign that manufacturing of consumer electronics components might be making a comeback to the U.S.
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