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  • 7rokhym@lemmy.caEnglish
    59·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Or Mexico! We’re already on it. Sheinbaum is working to get a chip manufacturing plant up in Guadalajara. Exciting stuff, honestly.

  • Tomma235@lemm.eeEnglish
    451·
    7 days ago

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

    • unalivejoy@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

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

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        1110·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • مهما طال الليل@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          The US gets an unsinkable aircraft off the coast of PRC, while Taiwan assumes all the risks of a war with PRC. If anything the US should show some respects to its allies instead of treating them like disposable pawns.

          • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
            15·
            6 days ago

            Sir, I am not “the US”, i am USian pedon, merely a subject, speaking on my own behalf.

        • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          Wasn’t this the same justification that America used to send factory jobs overseas? I feel repeating verbatim what the US has stated is the ultimate sign of respect.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    47·
    7 days ago

    And in two weeks there will be a special executive order to free his Tech Bro oligarch buddies from these tarrifs so Meta and Elmo are not forced to pay a dollar extra.

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
    31·
    7 days ago

    But I thought the Tim Apple donation to the trump inauguration was supposed to curry enough favor to avoid this.

    ThisIsMySurpisedFace.jpg.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    7 days ago

    I don’t get the goal here. It’s not just that existing fabs are in Taiwan, I thought it was the knowledge was as well.

    I was under the impression that we’d built a couple of fabs here and they’re not productive due to a knowledge deficit. Maybe I’m uninformed.

    It seems, to my uninformed self, that if we impose tariffs we’d be strengthening Taiwan/China relations. Wouldn’t China still serve as a middle man?

    I don’t see us manufacturing when the dollar is so high relative to foreign currency; add in the lack of knowledge and facilities and I’m not sure what you get.

    • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
      21·
      7 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
    171·
    7 days ago

    To avoid this, the administration would need to introduce exemptions, just like it did with China-made graphics cards and motherboards years ago.

    If that is the approach, it would ensure tech monopoly for 5 years for all of the oligarchy that kisses his diaper.

    More major issues with this is that while high end Chip production may be high value manufacturing, motherboards, electronics, and assembly is not, and there would likely be an export of chips to somewhere else to import finished products.

    US/Trump explicit hatred for world is likely to get retributive tariffs, that makes chip plants unproductive investments, though Trump is hoping to have high foreign ownership/investment in those plants.

    In 2022, the export share of Taiwan integrated circuits to US was just 2.46%, although in early 2024, total (all goods) Taiwan exports had US take lead over China for the first time.

    That both US and China are decoupling from Taiwan is going to reduce any geopolitical subservience impulse that provokes a war with China. Taiwan may get closer to China instead of begging for more US “friendship”.

  • ManOMorphos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    7 days ago

    People hyped for the Nvidia 5000 series better get their cards before prices skyrocket across the board. I guess graphics cards weren’t expensive enough or something.

    Really though, no brand is safe from the soon-to-be insane prices if this does go through as a blanket tariff without exceptions. Better to err on the safe side and upgrade soon as you can, if you need to and you’re not too wealthy to care.