Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC
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If TSMC doesn't want to set up shop in the USA, are the USA going to be able to produce chips on par with what TSMC can fab?
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more AI but less compute please make it make sense
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they are building a plant in Arizona, but i doubt it'll ever be as good as Taiwan can do, not just because Taiwan has the skills but if Taiwan doesn't have this then what's the point of protecting it? It's sort of a way to say, if you want to to continue to access the best chips in the world you should protect us from China
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Oh man, Trump...I had this thing I wanted to give you...where did I put it...oh yeah...
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In the end, only the customer pays extras.
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Trumpets cannot comprehend this
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Taiwan are very clear about this; they (correctly) consider their monopoly on high end chip manufacturing to be an urgent matter of national defence and it is of the highest priority to them to keep it solely within Taiwan. They will never allow their best processes to be exported.
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Is that Roman salute?
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It's already fabbing chips
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But it cannot produce the higher end chips. That was very specifically part of the agreement. They're only willing to fab low end product outside of Taiwan.
I was being very specific when I said "their best processes."
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Intel has been trying to get itself into that position for years, with huge amounts of public money being pumped in, and it is struggling so badly the company lost patience and fired the CEO who had the best chance of getting this done. As others have said, it doesn't look like TSMC is about to let its US fabs do the most advanced stuff even if they could.
So this move will just make the best technology less accessible to the USA and tech products more expensive for Americans, for the foreseeable future.
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People downvoting you can’t do a quick search:
TSMC is absolutely up and running already in the US.
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From what I understand one of the things that is protecting Taiwan from China is their fabs. They will fight for their lives to make sure they are protected by this.
As someone with family over in Taiwan, I really want them to be okay. Things are getting depressing globally.
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OK. It is ahistorical and hyperbolic to say they may never do that. They also have their fabs i n Taiwan rigged to self destruct if they get invaded. They are setting up shop in a different country. As fab dies shrink they get harder to make, they are building expertise somewhere else in case.
