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

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Do you have examples of individual components being swapped to avoid tariffs?

For PC parts, it would be very inexpensive to make a cheap mobo, chassis, and UX. E.g., they could put a high end server CPU or something into one of those small handhelds (like Anbernic devices), and then move it to an actual server in the US. Those chips can run more than $1k, while those Anbernic devices tend to run a couple hundred, so the small overhead would absolutely be worth being taxed at 15% instead of 100%.

Surely regulators have learned from the Ford Transit thing…

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