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Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC
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The US makes chips. Notably Intel and TSMC have US fabs.
Lol the chips Intel and TSMC make in the US are three generations old and no where near producing the amount needed to even cover the USs needs.
Intel is currently floundering unable to make a good (reliable) node. TSMC can make the chip, but the very important step of packaging needs to be done in Taiwan still.
Ahhhhh, so he's trying to reinvigorate domestic industry.
Yeah that's his thought process. The US isn't 19th century Japan though.
could be, if he also made education free. since he is currently reversing the global brain drain by deporting immigrants. i don't see what other next step he could possibly commit to unless he expects re-industrialization to just magically appear out of thin air.
Yes, we all know Trump wants to make education free lmao
Yeah, seems to be the carrot and stick approach. Biden provided the carrot a few years ago (subsidies for new US plants) and Trump is providing the stick (tariffs for offshore imports).
The biggest issue being that despite having operational fabs here, TSMC still needs to ship their wafers to Taiwan in order to process them into chips.