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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by ekianjo on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:04AM (#33815172)
> Toyota -> US

you dont pay tariffs if you produce locally. not hard to understand.

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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by zrail on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:09AM (#33815217)
Toyota builds trucks in the US because of the chicken tax.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by fomine3 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:03PM (#33825787)
US-Japan trade war was a big thing, and Japan relies on US for national security. There was no option not to manufacturing in the US.
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Re:TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia by ekianjo on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:13AM (#33832437)
> and Japan relies on US for national security

Good luck with that bet in the future.

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