3w ago

Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

apnews.com Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US

President Donald Trump says he's imposing a 100% tariff on computer chips— a move that raises the specter of higher prices for electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential goods that depend on the processors.

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Lol, ok i guess we're manipulating cpu stock prices now get ready to buy the dips everyone. Us poors benefitting from stock manipulation is the quickest way to to get them to stop with this nonsense.
- Not only that, but he's going to extort Jensen to pay for that ballroom
  
  I'm gonna need the jacket, Jensen. Yeah the jacket. Leave it there. Now say thank you.
- hope stocks don't move a needle over his taco speech, i think the whole chicken out thing came from the stock market
  
  I think it was the PSA guys I heard talking about how the market is just ignoring him at this point. After the first couple announcements there were wild swings. But now TACO, and basically nothing changes.
- So, does Intel:
  A. Justify their layoffs using this information that came out later?
  B. Use it to justify further layoffs?
  C. Completely ignore this as the market has no real effect on their internal workings
  
  Whichever is dumbest
- Mere peasants will never be able to time the bottom because Trump decides where the bottom will be.
- You are naïve if you think a lot of common people can benefit from any news. Remember folks- If it is in the news, it is in the price.

He won't do it, pure TACO. What's his plan to tariff the epstein files though? Many people are asking.

Just 100%? Why not 400% or 9999999%? Hell, invent a new order of magnitude, call it Trumpillion and impose a Trumpillion percent tarriff, that'll show'em how strong you are and will distract them from the Epstein files!
- Just like medicine, he'll stop at 1500% so it doesn't sound outlandish.

This is an amazing idea.
I'm sure manufacturers will have e their new supply chains and manufacturing plants ready to go in a few weeks.

I’m guessing this means the stock for some companies will dip and when it’s TACO time, his friends will be a bit richer?

The only thing that will stop this tariff nonsense is the economic collapse of the U.S. as a consequence. Narcissists thrive on attention, and we have a narcissistic toddler repeatedly lashing out for attention, and getting it. Every time he announces a tariff, every news outlet covers it, giving him narcissistic supply. Then, the leaders of whatever countries are affected by the tariffs are then invited to come and kiss his ass in order to try to avoid economic ruin, making Trump feel powerful and giving him even more narcissistic supply. Until the consequences fall with their full weight, which have been delayed by companies stocking up on inventory in advance of the tariffs, Trump is perceived as "winning" the tariff game. Make no mistake, the biggest loser with all these tariffs it the U.S. economy.

Do it, you TACO. Make it 200%.
- 1500%, like the discounts on meds

I'm genuinely shocked that the .1% aren't pushing back against this kind of shit. Or are they just gambling that the inevitable depression will allow them to make out like bandits AND that it won't be so bad as to trigger outright societal collapse?
- Everyone's in on it. All news is a facade for the public.

For a guy who hates taxes, he sure as shit loves taxes. He's such fucking moron. Please drop dead Donny.
- Taxes on goods hit the working class waaay harder than the rich. This is just further shifting the burden off of himself
  
  Oh believe me I know. I don't think he knows. He believes international companies should eat the cost, that's his whole thing.

Yikes, that would make cpu's as expensive as gpu's, and gpu's, well, unaffordable altogether.
- He will exempt companies who makes chips in the US - as long as they make some of them in the US, their imports are exempt from the tariff. A quick glance says major chip makers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) have some production facilities in the US.
  
  I guess that means those cheap SoC boxes we've been seeing all over are gonna double in price.
  
  Some, but they're fabbed by TSMC which he's trying to strongarm into buying a 49% stake in Intel.

So basically we can design them, but we can’t afford to buy them lol

Didn't he specifically end plans to expand silicon production in the USA? I'm pretty sure that's a deliberate act he took when he first entered office, so tariffing chips makes no sense unless he just doesn't want any electronics.
- He's reliable inconsistent in his policy stances
- silicone is boobs, silicon is chips

While I hate this, I’d love to see risc-v take off.
- Wait, they're not all made in China? Last time we were ordering some for a development board at work, we had to source them from China, though that was admittedly a few years back.
  
  It’s open source, you can fab it anywhere.

If he wants to give up the supercomputing race this badly he can also just drop the export restrictions on high performance GPUs to China when he's at it.

"Likely"? What kind of pathetic simping language is that. There is no "likely" about prices going up from such a move.

I am kinda hoping that our history books would read:
"...Jen-Hsun ordered a successful hit on Trump. Despite clear evidence, he was found not guilty by the jury, and news networks were very lenient. Those who threaten the gold, are liquidated. Fortunately, the working class still overthrew Jeff Bezos and the other overlords, despite their merciless nature."

Between AP reporting and Trump. The US will turn into cyperpunk in 20 years
- Without the cyber, apparently.
  
  my dad was a cyborg back in 2017. had a working brain implant and everything. hell, i've been a low-tech one (i got plastic and velcro parts) since 2010. we already there
- Like the show Max Headroom

Greed. Hes pure greed. Satan take him to the right rung of hell. Make him eat gold coins and poop them out forever.

Sure, why not

Guess I won't be upgrading from my 10 year old desktop anytime soon.

TACO

My computer's from Goodwill, tariff THAT mofo

Nvidia investors are getting so hard right now!
- Nvda up 1.47% in premarket
  AMD up 2.21% in premarket
  Seems no one believes TACO
  
  Can’t really blame them, child fucker flips all the time.

Haha, yeah, let me believe there's a plan anywhere in sight.

He is not going to leave willingly.
- His brain is melting in real time. He's not making it through the term
  
  As long as he is alive he can be propped against a podium to say racist, upsetting shit, then Stephen Miller and more clandestine moneyed interests like David Koch and Peter Theil pull the strings of the party and movement. Its probably better for operators heavily invested in Trump if he's less intellectually competent.

See I've got concepts

Wasn't Biden's chips act meant to encourage chips and semiconductor manufacturing to be shored in the US? What's Trump doing nuking everything with tariffs? Surely, the oligarchs who bankrolled him won't appreciate this.
Edit: clarity
- Yes Biden's chips act did create a ton of new investments in chip building in the US. Only for Trump and Maga to kill it upon taking power. Now he's going to claim the credit for all the investments made from the time of Biden's chips act.

Doesn't Apple still use Samsung chips? Or is that something from past assembly?
- About everyone uses non-US chips in the US. Think about anything digitally controlled, and there will be at least one non-US chip in it. Sometimes dozens, sometimes hundreds.
  Just another point to show that Trump has no clue about anything business.
- Last I heard the Apple M series chips are made by TSMC, but maybe storage chips could be from Samsung?
- None of the chips in the US are fully US made.

Dear America are we tired yet of all this “winning”

The cool part is how no one needs these and this won't impact our economy in the slightest.

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