They’re built in Taiwan though right so realistically them being the US company is more to do with where their officers are based. So they really could just move.
It would screw over the people who work there of course.
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Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week agoOr Canadian. Since they have quite a passionatr investor there already
echodot@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The company are designers and engineers, not factory workers, they don’t have staff in Taiwan, they put their orders there. Unless they move all the people, thry can’t really move that easily.
Petter1@lemm.ee 6 days ago
And pay tariffs for chips etc still coming from Taiwan? (There are not enough chip fabs in US so that US still will be dependent on Taiwan just paying US government some premium. And the few chips coming from US will just match prices of imported chips)
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Oh, of course, my intent was more “quit the US”.