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submitted 2 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

The tariffs would ensnare cutting-edge smartphone and PC-related chips for Apple, AMD and Nvidia if enacted. But Trump is betting his plan will bring more chip production to the US.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Ahhhhh, so he's trying to reinvigorate domestic industry.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's his thought process. The US isn't 19th century Japan though.

[-] sibachian@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, we all know Trump wants to make education free lmao

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

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.

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