Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC
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voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Sure, "low end" wasn't a perfectly scientifically accurate way to describe it. I apologize for my terrible lack of academic rigor.
The point is that they're not going to let their highest end processes be replicated outside of Taiwan. Or, rather, the Taiwanese government is not going to let that happen, because fear of losing access to that technology is their one bargaining chip with the West. Without that, they cease to exist as a country. There just isn't enough incentive for anyone to risk a war with China otherwise.
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justjack23@slrpnk.netreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
How to reunite China and Taiwan 101
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tsesejuer@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
indeed, so please stop beating the 1a to death and use your 2a to do something
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7rokhym@lemmy.careplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Awesome! Send them to Canada, we can build data centres and sell the cloud services back to Americans powered by the electricity that we expect to be tarriffed, and cooled by the water we won't sell.
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tsesejuer@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
world going down faster than ur sister on a Friday night but PC parts go BRRrRRRRRrrrrRRRrRRRR
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tsesejuer@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
lol I've always heard it as the sailor salute
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ag10n@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Totally agree that it’s a sound strategy to keep their latest and greatest on home soil.
At the same time they are starting to implement tooling for important parts of clients designs likeCore chiplets for Ryzen
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eatspancakes84@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Also, because these investments are long-term when the tariffs are likely to only be short term.
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kandoh@reddthat.comreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I truly believe these are his way of soliciting bribes from foreign and domestic businesses.
They're going to have to pay him to get around them.
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weeblife@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I've been looking at doing a new pc build but wanted to wait for the new GPUs coming out. Looks like I should just my new build before prices are stupid.
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downhomechunk@midwest.socialreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Or at least buy the GPU now.
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siegfried@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Trump is a chinese puppet apparently
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tomma235@lemm.eereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
So where is the US going to get its chips from then tax TMSC makes over 90% of chips?
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joyjoy@lemm.eereplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
TSMC was supposed to open a plant in the US, but apparently that takes a bit of time to get running.
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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
No choice except the obvious: Pass the cost of the Tax into the customer because there’s no way they’re going to spend billions to stand up a US fab plant anytime soon.
TSMC is standing up fabs in the US, mostly because we're bribing them to do so.
The problem is that it takes literal years to build high tech manufacturing and isn't something you can yank out of your ass to satisfy some idiot politician.
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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
Everything will be more expensive, if it uses a modern CPU. Phones, tablets, computers of any type from any company (both Intel and AMD are fabbing consumer CPUs on TSMC, as is Apple and Qualcomm), TVs, set top boxes, everything.
Right now TSMC is basically the only fab anything consumer-facing is made on, which is not a great thing in general, but vice president trump just decided that anything electronic needs a hefty price hike.
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weeblife@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
I built my system in 2019 and and everything needs upgraded. I also wanted to switch to AMD, so figured I'd just do a full build
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umami_wasbi@lemmy.mlreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
And remember, once the price goes up, it rarely goes down. Even after the tariffs reverted in the future.
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teamevil@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
What a goddamn dumb fuck
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cyd@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 27 days ago last edited by
By Taiwanese law, TSMC isn't allowed to move cutting edge processes to its US plant. The overseas operations have to be at least one gen behind.
From a strategic point of view, it makes sense for the Taiwan government to do this. They don't want the US to suck them dry then cut a deal with the mainland.
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