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Los Angeles (AP) – Even when he pledges to push the United States forward in artificial intelligence research, President Donald Trump's threats to change federal government contracts with chips makers and slapped a new tariff for the semiconductor industry industry.
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Since assuming his post, Trump said he would put a customs tariff for foreign production of computers and semi -conductors to re -manufacture chips to the United States, and lawmakers and Republicans also threatened to end the chips and science law, which is the Biden Passing Administration, the law that also sought to enhance local production.
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However, economic experts have warned that Trump's dual fame approach may slow down, or may harm the goal of managing the goal of ensuring that the United States maintains a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence research.
Seikat Chaudhry, an expert in the growth of corporate and innovation at Haas College at the University of California at the University of California, Berkeley, was called “Trump”, which is surprising because one of the largest bottlenecks for the advancement of Amnesty International is the production of chips. Chaudhry said that most countries are trying to encourage chips and import chips at favorable prices.
“We have seen what the deficiency did in everything from artificial intelligence to cars,” he said. “In the epidemic, cars had a lower or fewer relationship of power chips in order to deal with supply restrictions.”
The Biden Shepherd Administration helped after the display disturbances that occurred after the start of the Covid-19–when it is a shortage of the factory assembly lines on the chips and nourishes inflation-threatening the American economy in stagnation. When pressing for investment, legislators also said they are concerned about the efforts made by China to control Taiwan, which represents more than 90 % of advanced computer chips.
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As of August 2024, the Chips and Science Law offered $ 30 billion to support 23 projects in 15 states that add 115,000 jobs in manufacturing and construction, according to the Ministry of Trade. This funding helped with withdrawing private capital and the United States will enable the production of 30 % of the world's most computer chips, up from 0 % when the Biden Harris administration succeeded in the first Trump term.
The administration has promised tens of billions of dollars to support the construction of US chips and reduce dependence on Asian suppliers, which Washington considers a security point. In August, the Ministry of Trade pledged to provide up to $ 6.6 billion so that Taiwan manufacturing can be semiconductor.
But Trump said he believed that companies that enter these contracts with the federal government, such as TSMC, “did not need money” in order to give priority to the chips industry in the United States
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They needed an incentive. Trump said the incentive would not want to pay a 25, 50 % tax, or even 100 %.
TSMC held the meetings of the Board of Directors for the first time in the United States last week. Trump indicated that if companies want to avoid definitions, they must build their factories in the United States – without the help of the government. Taiwan also sent senior economic affairs to Washington to meet the Trump administration in an attempt to enter the 100 % tariff that Trump threatened to impose on chips.
If the Trump administration is a virtuous tariff, one of the instant concerns is that the prices of goods that use semiconductors and chips will rise because the high costs associated with tariffs are usually transferred to consumers.
He said: “Whether it is your smartphone, whether it is your game device, whether it is the smart refrigerator – perhaps your smart features of your car – anything and everything we use nowadays has a chip in it.” “For consumers, it will be somewhat painful. Manufacturers will not be able to absorb it.”
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He said that even technology giants like Nvidia will eventually feel the pain of definitions, although their margins are high enough to accommodate costs at the present time.
“They will all be affected by this robbery,” he said. “I cannot see anyone who benefits from this except for those countries that jump on the vehicle competitively and say:” You know what, we will present something like the chips law. “
Brett House, professor of professional practice at Colombia College of Business, said. He said that the definitions will not only raise the costs of companies and families in all fields, but they will significantly increase the costs of one of their most important inputs: high -energy chips from abroad.
House said: “If you cut, cancel or threaten the chips law at the same time that you put a widespread tariff on the imports of artificial intelligence and other computer technology, it will be in the industrial urines sharply,” said House.
He said that such definitions would reduce the ability to create a local chips sector, and send a signal for future investments so that policy expectations are unconfirmed. This, in turn, may put a chilling effect on new capital of the United States industry with making the current flow of imported chips more expensive.
He said: “The American technological industrial leadership has been always supported by maintaining openness to global markets and immigration and employment flows.” “And closing this openness down was not a recipe for American success.”
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The Associated Press Josh Bouak and Tang Tang in Washington contributed to this report.
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