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Prediction: In under a month they'll cut a deal to give American companies huge discounts and all pretense of "encouraging US production" will evaporate.

This is so silly.

Trump: I'm going to put a 100% tariff on your goods if you don't start building them here.

TSMC: Yeah, we're doing just that next year. We're already fabbing them there in the US.

2026 rolls around and the final part of TSMZ in AZ is complete

Trump: I'm such a fucking genius.

And Republicans will eat this shit up.

This dumb motherfucker is going to make our missiles twice as expensive.

TSMC opened a factory in Arizona, so it's really a big f u to the people of Taiwan while the owners of tsmc are good to go.

I get the bring jobs to the US bit, but the cost will be passed on to consumers and the whole market will shrink. There are existing chip fab facilities in the US, maybe efforts should focus on why they can't compete instead of reducing demand for electronics inside the US.

Yet another tariff that is somehow magically against an American ally and not against Russia or China.

It's pretty funny how this is an attack that could backfire extremely.

Almost all of the advanced chips are made using ASML EUV machines. Which is a Dutch company.

If Trump continues on this path of self-destruction, attacking countries and companies around the world, the US might just end up with sub-par chip production like China has. (They have old ASML machines and aren't getting any new ones). TSMC is one of the biggest partners of ASML and has a LOT of cards to play to get ASML to not supply any machines to the US.

It's absolutely horrid that a boy like Trump has any power and doesn't even know that his attacks are nothing more than a punch to his own balls. A normal politician would work on alliances to get chip production going in the US before fucking over all the companies relying on chips. Stuff like subsidies for local chip production are not news worthy enough for him to get any kick out of so he just flexes his power.

Yeah, we’ll be able to build usable chip factories here in the states in no time. That surely doesn’t take several years to get set up.

Just when you thought he couldn't get any dumber. Advanced microchips are one of the highest in demand commodities in the world. TSMC will have no problem selling them to the rest of the world outside of the U.S.

Is the intent to make Taiwan just roll over and invite China in?

Because it sure fucking looks like it.

what a fucking idiot.

wants 'made in usa' chips.

usa literally can't make them.. only certain parts of them.. and not near enough to 'go around' and meet even just the domestic demand. not now, not in a decade. not in two decades. it ain't happening.

criticizes efforts to get more of them made here. reasoning being, of course, equal parts of: something biden did that's seen as good and he dont like that, and money being spent that could be funneled to him and his comrades and donors instead).

instead wants to put a 100% tax on imports as 'punishment'. which could be the trigger that puts the economy into a tailspin that hasn't been seen in nearly 100 years. semiconductors are that important, taiwan makes that many of them, and the usa does not.

you know damn well those tariff funds would never go towards improving american production capabilities.. it would just fund more tax cuts for his wealthy donors.

So if I buy a smart toaster from overseas and that toaster was built with microchips, but is then sold to the US via another country... That would avoid the tariff, no?

Doesn't this literally do the inverse of boosting local manufacturing?

Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm and all other fabless chip designers must be thrilled.

Taiwan must be thrilled too. That silicon shield may crack earlier than expected.

Let’s explain tariffs so that even a baby like trump could understand.

If an item is sold for $1 and you put 100% tariff on it, it now costs $2 for a consumer in the US to buy. The government doesn’t get to take the $1 that the company is selling it for, they still make their $1 regardless of the tariff. All this does is force the US buyer to pay more.

I guess he could understand it if this is designed to funnel more money to the government but it’s gonna start impacting his tech bro handlers.

This is signalling that the US Is geopolitically abandoning Taiwan, Surrendering it to China. Looks like a backdoor deal has been made, CCP will move in by 2030. And the US isn't going to fight

Every single person who calls themselves Ukrainian should be thanking their lucky stars Biden was in the whitehouse when Putin decided to start the Russkiy Mir game. Trump would have sold the country out and they would have lost their sovereignty with a whimper, and not a penny of support from the west. At least they were given a chance to fight their aggressors. Taiwan on the other hand, will lose everything, including their dignity.

We tried that already, it didn’t work. The Taiwanese teaching us how to make them said Americans were too lazy to learn, and the Americans said the Taiwanese were insane.

Nvidia about to be selling through another country as Mvidia with their Shifty 90 series.

The reason for doing this is specifically because it's so damaging to the US. Surprise surprise, a government hand picked by an adversary is intentionally destructive.

This is really dumb for a number of reasons. But first and foremost, we have a strong alliance with Taiwan, we should be trying to maintain that connection and not let our relationship become hostile. We have military bases in Taiwan, this is part of how we keep a close eye on China. If nothing else, Taiwan is strategically important to us.

In other words, don't fuck up years of successful diplomacy to make a quick buck like a nearsighted moron.

[...] proposed tariffs as an alternative incentive.

He learned one word and basis his entire view on economy on it.

Fortunately chips aren't in many products so this should really help the cost of living. Great work!

/s

Tim Apple; that’s your cue to send the next million for “inauguration”…

Hooray! I was getting worried about gaming GPUs becoming affordable again now that they're winding down the "chip shortage" excuse!

Good thing we can count on Trump to price us out of the few pleasures in life we cling to in order to tolerate the world he's ruining! 😮‍💨🤬