Anduril's Made-in-USA 'Bluechip' Laptop Will Have 65% Domestic Components in 2027

Anduril, the defense technology company founded by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, is building a laptop manufactured in America—not just pieced together or serviced here, but built here, from American-made components. Or mostly American-made components, at least. The company's communications team has since said that in 2027, the laptop will use at least 65% domestic parts.

Luckey said earlier this week that the company has a technical roadmap to reach 100% domestic over time, but it would start below that threshold. It's important, though, because it allows the laptop to qualify as a domestic product under the Biden-era adjusted "Buy America" legislation . That threshold rises to 75% in 2029, so Anduril will need to keep shifting its supply line to domestic companies if it wants to keep that label.

But even reaching 65% may be challenging. The current prototype uses only 32% domestic laptop components, although Anduril highlighted that 90% of components come from the US and "allied countries" combined.

Anduril is targeting 65%, but the actual percentage it can reach by 2027 and beyond will depend on a range of factors outside its control: most notably, when new domestic fabs come online , and the state of the industry in 2027, when memory and storage are expected to remain hard to find and highly priced.

Anduril has reportedly secured a US-based glass manufacturer for the display and is working on programming bespoke chips to handle power management and other key tasks inside modern laptops. It's also developing made-in-America batteries.

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If Anduril meets its goals, it may be able to tap a lucrative, somewhat captured market. Luckey highlighted in a recent call with journalists that many government agencies must buy American-made computers or secure a waiver to use international options. Those waivers are used en masse without many domestic alternatives, but Anduril sees a clear path to becoming that American-made option.

Although any eventual laptop will need to compete with international alternatives, and major discrepancies in performance, security, or efficiency may make it hard to get the project off the ground, budget will be less of a concern. If Anduril can get a functioning made-in-America pipeline for laptop components, it may not struggle with outside funding to deliver the hardware when American agencies and military units may be pushed to use this domestic option over international alternatives that require jumping through more red tape.

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