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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] BombOmOm 3 points 2 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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 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.