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

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

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.

[weeblife@lemmy.world]

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.

[downhomechunk@midwest.social]

Or at least buy the GPU now.

[siegfried@lemmy.world]

Trump is a chinese puppet apparently

[tomma235@lemm.ee]

So where is the US going to get its chips from then tax TMSC makes over 90% of chips?

[joyjoy@lemm.ee]

TSMC was supposed to open a plant in the US, but apparently that takes a bit of time to get running.

[schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business]

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.

[schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business]

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.

[weeblife@lemmy.world]

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

[umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml]

And remember, once the price goes up, it rarely goes down. Even after the tariffs reverted in the future.

[teamevil@lemmy.world]

What a goddamn dumb fuck

[cyd@lemmy.world]

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.

[schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business]

I mean, it's economic blackmail: we won't build the good shit anywhere else, so if you don't protect us, you get nothing.

Effective, but only if you're dealing with someone who is rational, and, well, have you seen the brain-worm oligarchs in charge of the US lately?

[palmtreeisbesttree@lemmy.world]

I did mine a couple months ago because I anticipated this happening.

[derpgon@programming.dev]

Oh he did, there were supposed to be 500% tariffs ^/s^

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Peace in our time, what a great deal maker!

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

Russian revenge for the sanctions.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Probably Aussie hardware prices at this rate.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

OP needs a second to make it American.

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

They did say American worker is lazy and expects highest pay lol

Cry me a fucking river. This corpo really forgot who defends their precious island. American tax payer spends good money in your support. Show some fucking respect.