TuxDear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!
sp3ctr4lIt will at least be extremely funny to watch all the gamer bro chuds freak the fuck out when an immediate consequence of their actions will be that gaming pc components instantly inflate 50% in price.
Glad I already got my Steam Deck, fuck.
macnielbut but… Orange men said it was good for the economy, now I have to pay 2000 Dollars for a 5090? Why aren’t they coming to America and produce here!?
Trump basicly become world’s biggest GPU scalper! Good luck spending 3000$+ on RTX 5090 graphics THICK brick
Nicht BurningTurtleMaybe we will finally get some optimised games.
Ahhaha, good joke.
No the future is everything is more expensive and worse quality.
Only without the cool tech :(
GHiLAWith the way gaming has been going, wtf are you people even upgrading for?
CHIPS Act? Never heard of it.
actually I didn’t.
Its a pretty strategically and economically impactful piece of legislation pushed by, and then signed into law, by Biden, in 2022.
It basically sets up a bunch of tax incentives and funds to go toward building out domestic computer hardware research and manufacturing.
Its the kind of thing that would lay the foundation for the US building a lot more of its own computer hardware, instead of importing it.
So when the Trump tariff apocalypse hits… assuming the CHIPS Act does not get repealed, it will be the only saving grace in terms of possibly lowering computer hardware costs.
Trump and Republicans are likely to try and take credit for this, if domestic chip fabs start coming online before 2028, pretending it is something they came up with.
Oh, the thing Trump called "so bad" on Joe Rogan a couple weeks ago? He said that tariffs are his preferred strategy to force companies to build in the US. Maybe that was just rhetoric and you can't trust it, but he did say it.
As it stands, CHIPS isn't going anywhere, so at least Americans won't be totally fucked.
I know these things take time, but it’s really hard not to be skeptical of CHIPS amounting to much. It reminds me too much of all the grant money given to telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon - supposed to be for improving infrastructure and implementing 5G, but they just pocketed the money as profit.