Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

by Dependent-Bug3874

23 comments

  1. Holy shit. A lot of people are about to lose a shit ton more money.

  3. Oh great now electrontics are going 2 get more expensive and cars . Stop doing dumb things you twat.

  4. *TSMC-made chips usually aren’t exported directly to the US, but sent to China and other Asian countries, where they’re then assembled into consumer electronics bound for the US.*

    Trump wants chip manufacturing back in the US. He is taxing them for leaving America.

  6. ….. Well that’s unhinged given the proportion of high-end chips that are made in Taiwan….

  7. Everything Trump does is a bait and switch, as per his conman DNA. No need to freak out, we’ll see what actually happens. For instance, TSMC is already building manufacturing here in the states (thanks Biden!). Trump will likely depend on morons to not know that’s happening, then turn around and point at them building said manufacturing in the US as a BIGLY win for his tariff plan.

  8. Isn’t he also defunding the CHIPS Act? Either way is moronic, why tariff something we can’t make ourselves at nearly the scale we need yet

  9. Is he an idiot? We make ALL our chips there!

    Oh shit… Do you want to bet he’s withdrawing military assistance to Taiwan, and he’s going to leave them alone to be eaten up by China?

  12. So. Like. In 2022, 0% of the worlds chips were manufactured in the US. Even with the billions Biden invested into the industry, which has seens fabs beginning construction across the US, realistically most of them aren’t going to be fully online until at least 2028/2029. An optimistic and hopeful best case outcome is that maybe the US could possibly increase their share of the world’s manufacturing of chips to 20% by 2030.

    It’s not like there’s a whole chip manufacturing industry just sitting idle in the US waiting for an order and Taiwan keeps stealing the orders. The chips are made in Taiwan because that’s where the fabs are.

    No matter how you slice it, this is going to result in a massive increase in the cost of living for average every day Americans who will have to pay for these tariffs for years, even if it is widely successful and exceeds all estimates and maybe gets 30% of world manufacturing in the US by 2030, it’s still going to mean the majority of electronics in the US are going to be substantially more expensive for every day Americans.

    And these companies, will not be paying for that. They will simply pass on that cost to their customers.

    It’s like Trump is trying to speedrun an economic collapse.

  13. Maybe Nvidia and AMD should rebase their headquarters to Taiwan.

  14. Huh … well I guess I’d better go order that PSU. Corsair x series units use Taiwan capacitors.

    Anything electronic is about to skyrocket in terms of pricing.

  17. He’s trying to bust their balls since the Arizona plant delay was based on the incentives for TSMC to build there. In exchange they would’ve bumped the project to more than double the 12 billion to 40 billion. He just can’t try to make a deal like a real businessman, he thinks he’s mafiosi. They already were prepared to build here since we were siding with them against China

  18. If we have to defend Taiwan from China, they should give us free chips… now, I want Mexican food.

  19. For a million and one reasons we need Taiwan, the Chips and Science Act was passed to ween us off Taiwan but we are nowhere near yet. Good luck gamers getting your new 5090 for $2000.

  20. After the Deep Seek announcement and $600B drop in NVDA valuation, we might as well kick NVIDIA in the nuts, too.

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  21. Incredibly stupid idea. What’s the point of handing China this victory?

  22. We have a TSMC plant now here in PHX, thanks to the CHIPS act under the Biden admin. Are these chips made here domestically also affected?

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