▲ 12 ▼ New levy on non-EU parcels to start on 1 November Business News (www.rte.ie) submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@piefed.social to c/european@piefed.social 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child) Is it even possible to get normal microchips from europe?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] misk@piefed.social [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) Not really. Donald Trump might be a drooling moron but it’s the Americans who now have TSMC and Intel fabs churning out chips on modern process nodes. We have a nice webpage: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-chips-act This isn’t the purpose of those tariffs though. In my experience they’re meant to bring back Sega Dreamcast battery holder manufacturing back to the motherland, apparently. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] misk@piefed.social [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) Not really. Donald Trump might be a drooling moron but it’s the Americans who now have TSMC and Intel fabs churning out chips on modern process nodes. We have a nice webpage: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-chips-act This isn’t the purpose of those tariffs though. In my experience they’re meant to bring back Sega Dreamcast battery holder manufacturing back to the motherland, apparently. permalink fedilink source parent