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

[kokesh@lemmy.world]

I'm sure that orange fuck will try to sell it to "beautiful" president Xi, or to clean it out to stop the conflict, or something like that, that bubbles up in his senile demented brain.

[narp@feddit.org]

The dismantling of the US was Putins wet dream since forever, he would have done the same with or without the well deserved sanctions for invading Ukraine.

[perestroika@lemm.ee]

And how exactly has TSMC shown "disrespect"?

Putting corporations aside and speaking of states: the US is a store that Taiwan frequently shops in - a very big defense equipment store, I should say. Some of the toys cost money, but if you buy enough, you get kickbacks - the US gives Taiwan some security assistance for free.

Meanwhile, Taiwan is a store the world frequently shops in - a very big microprocessor, memory and microcontroller store. Frequent customers can tell TSMC "hey, it would be nice if you brought some of your business here". And it works that way: one factory will be built in the US, one factory in the EU. Maybe elsewhere too.

[sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world]

Will this affect cpu prices? I don't know much about my computer's gut's guts

[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?