Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

I am a US worker and TSMC execs spoke shot a our the user workers and said we get paid too much.

I am expected to tolerate such behavior from a foreign corpo parasite when my taxes are spent to defend them?

Y'all, can't conceptualize the separation here lol

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Y'all got some weak reading comp here lol

[cataphract@lemmy.ml]

TSMC execs spoke shot a our the user workers
uhhh...what?

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Suuuuuuuuuuuure

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

His voters seem to think it's Taiwan that pays the tariffs.

[manomorphos@lemmy.world]

I've read some idiots online saying "you're dumb if you didn't wait for the 5000 series" based off of the revealed MSRP, as if the majority of people are ever going to buy at those prices (especially now with tariffs). What's likely is that consumers will pay far more to get relatively less improvement if they go with a 5000 series card.

There's enough sucker fanboys for Nvidia that they'll probably still sell though. Just like how there's people who will buy the new Call of Duty each year.

[manomorphos@lemmy.world]

The most cutting-edge chips are made in Taiwan. Hardly any chip foundry comes close to the quality they export. It will raise prices of nearly everything in a PC as consumers will probably buy up the remaining stock of modern hardware as an alternative.

[manomorphos@lemmy.world]

Oh no I got owned

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Typo Fixed

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Lol, I'd love to watch everyone in the US paying triple for literally anything that has electronics in it.

If Trump then wants to build chips in the US, good luck. ASML is the only one with the machines, first of all, and by the time he can buy those, something tells me they might have some extra tarifs added to them, and then paying US salaries for electronics would skyrocket prices to people having to pay four-five times the amount of what they're paying now.

Not saying that the near slavery conditions in Asia are fine, that should have changed decades ago, but the way trump is doing this is hilarious, people will want his head on a plattee

[geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml]

Even for the big spenders the 5090 does not warrant a new purchase. The 4090 was fast enough for most things. For things the 4090 is not fast enough, the 30% bump will not be much help.

A far bigger VRAM capacity would have been nice but 8GB extra is meh

[cataphract@lemmy.ml]

That's weird, I see it's been edited but there's no "been edited" icon next to it.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

thats one way to make sure openai can stay competitive

[absentbird@lemm.ee]

Hell, use the waste heat to power hot water heaters or something. It blows my mind that we don't do more cloud computing in cold environments. The servers produce heat, the people need heat, solve one problem with another. Instead we seem to be putting them in the driest and hottest climates available.

[absentbird@lemm.ee]

Make the chips in Guadalajara, ship them out of Puerto Vallarta to Vancouver to power server farms in Surrey; cut the US out entirely.

[spoopy@lemmy.world]

Brother have you just willfully ignored what US CEOs say every day about US workers?

[rangerjosey@lemmy.ml]

That's just how tariffs work. They're not a weapon against enemy nations. They're a tax on Americans.

And nobody is going to bring production back to this fascist slave pen of a country.

[zaphod@sopuli.xyz]

The thing with that fab is it doesn't do packaging, they ship the wafers abroad for that. I wonder if americans will end up paying tariffs on chips made in the USA.

[7rokhym@lemmy.ca]

Indeed. My Alienware doubles as a space heater in my north facing office.

[1995toyotacorolla@lemmy.world]

Can't wait to start putting Trump "I DID THAT!" stickers nest to $5000 walmart laptops