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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    • BombOmOm
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      03 days 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).

      • @[email protected]
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        03 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        03 days 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.