Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC's China chip-building effort

The Trump administration terminated the world's largest foundry operator's validated end-user (VEU) status this week in an apparent bid to push Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) out of China. It seems that committing to $165 billion worth of US fabs, advanced packaging, and research and development facilities hasn' …

[ecofeco]

Cool, now shoot the other foot

Another day and tRump continues to hand the future the China.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Cool, now shoot the other foot

How many feet does he have? I think the "other foot" (implying only two in total) was shot on day one, along with the first one. And the 3rd, 4th, 5th...

[Number6]

I wonder what happens if all chip manufacturers outside the US decline to play ball with Trump?

[DS999]

He will order massive tariffs on them, shooting the US economy in the foot with a bazooka by making memory/storage/logic chips double or triple in price, then blame the resulting depression on Joe Biden.

[Anonymous Coward]

That is the only way to deal with Trump.

Give any concessions and you get fucked as you blinked.

Something the EU, UK, South Korea, Japan, India, Aus/NZ need to wake up to.

Esp. Ironic as tariffs on Russia are so low but secondary tariffs high on India buying Russian energy and China/EU ignored on that. Makes no sense - even in Trumpworld.

[VoiceOfTruth]

Get it right

The Trump regime. The US regime.

The USA is beggaring its 'allies'. One day enough of them will wake up.

[Yorick Hunt]

Re: Get it right

"The USA is beggaring buggering its 'allies'."

FTFY.

[IGotOut]

So let me get this right....

The Orange coffin dodger buys a stake in Intel, then rivals get blacklisted.

Hmmmm

[Mark Exclamation]

Re: So let me get this right....

What makes you think he's dodging orange coffins...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: So let me get this right....

‘Weekend at Donald’s” … would explain a few things .

[Irongut]

Re: So let me get this right....

TSMC make parts of Intels current and next generation CPUs.

Without TSMC, Intel would have had no new chips since 2023.

This hurts Intel too. Or it would if TSMC rightly told the orange turd to go flush himself.

[MrReynolds2U]

there is another option

"If those two firms are unable to obtain export licenses from the US Commerce Department, they may be forced to write off their investments in the region."

Or... tell the US government to fuck off and let the US become a third-world state when they can't access these technologies produced by Samsung et al.

[Zolko]

Re: there is another option

Exactly my thoughts :

the 3nm and smaller process tech used in its Taiwanese fabs to produce chips for the likes of Apple, AMD, and Nvidia

if TSMC chooses China over USA, it would only hurt US companies

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: there is another option

...and save them investing their $billions in the USA ($165B, was it?), investing instead in countries where everything is cheaper and the investment goes much, much further.

[Ryan D]

Slowly but surely

The USSA is becoming the next hermit kingdom.

Seriously though, how big do your feet need to be before shooting them becomes a major issue?

At this pace the country will see tech prices jump by 30% at minimum and that would be before the supply chain tightens and things jump higher.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Slowly but surely

"Seriously though, how big do your feet need to be before shooting them becomes a major issue?"

I have ponder this and not come to any conclusion as yet. I don't think we've ever seen his feet. Those shoes could be padded and he may have very tiny teeny feet like his tiny teeny hands and so no matter how often he shoots at his feet, he keeps missing. I am making an assumption that he also uses a teeny tiny gun because of his tiny teeny hands.