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Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC (www.pcmag.com)

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The tariffs would ensnare cutting-edge smartphone and PC-related chips for Apple, AMD and Nvidia if enacted. But Trump is betting his plan will bring more chip production to the US.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does he plan to start making chips??? Genuinely why would he do this.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The US makes chips. Notably Intel and TSMC have US fabs.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Lol the chips Intel and TSMC make in the US are three generations old and no where near producing the amount needed to even cover the USs needs.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Intel is currently floundering unable to make a good (reliable) node. TSMC can make the chip, but the very important step of packaging needs to be done in Taiwan still.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ahhhhh, so he's trying to reinvigorate domestic industry.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that's his thought process. The US isn't 19th century Japan though.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

could be, if he also made education free. since he is currently reversing the global brain drain by deporting immigrants. i don't see what other next step he could possibly commit to unless he expects re-industrialization to just magically appear out of thin air.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, we all know Trump wants to make education free lmao

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, seems to be the carrot and stick approach. Biden provided the carrot a few years ago (subsidies for new US plants) and Trump is providing the stick (tariffs for offshore imports).

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

The biggest issue being that despite having operational fabs here, TSMC still needs to ship their wafers to Taiwan in order to process them into chips.