In the end, only the customer pays extras.

He emphasized that the proposed tariffs would leave companies with no choice but to invest in domestic production facilities to avoid high taxes.

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.

Oh man, Trump...I had this thing I wanted to give you...where did I put it...oh yeah...🖕

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.

So, US is finally getting EU hardware prices

Can the fat fuck die from a coronary already?

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

China I get, but Taiwan ? It's literally a US-proxy state

Ah yes. Our sworn enemy: Taiwan.

It would be comical if it wasn't so sad.

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.

Trump is a chinese puppet apparently

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?

It's going to impact American consumers a hell of a lot more.

Awesome. More availability for the rest of us.

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

ThisIsMySurpisedFace.jpg.

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

Wait until his voters see their toy prices flying up

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.

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.

How to reunite China and Taiwan 101

Trump is basically a sad fat kid in a classroom that just cries and screams when shit doesn't go his way and then ruins everything for everyone else.

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".

Surely this will bring egg prices down.