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Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal
Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, experts told WIRED.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s top producer of advanced computer chips, said Monday that it was planning to invest $100 billion in the United States to fund five new fabrication plants in Arizona. But higher American labor costs and the country’s lack of a sophisticated semiconductor supply chain means moving manufacturing there will take years, if not decades, and there’s little guarantee that such US outposts will be profitable. Even though companies like Samsung and Intel have achieved comparable knowhow in high-end chip manufacturing to some extent, it would be time-consuming, pricey, and risky to move mature production processes out of TSMC factories.
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