The tariffs would ensnare cutting-edge smartphone and PC-related chips for Apple, AMD and Nvidia if enacted. But Trump is betting his plan will bring more chip production to the US.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans Monday night to impose massive tariffs on Taiwan-made chips in an attempt to incentivize companies to relocate production to the United States. On the one hand,

TSMC's new U.S. plant is unlikely to get the most advanced chip technology before factories in Taiwan due to complex compliance issues, local construction regulations and various permitting requirements,

TSMC has been promised $6.6 billion under the Biden-administration’s CHIPS and Science ACT to help build three cutting-edge chip fabrication plants in Arizona.

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to impose tariffs on imported computer chips, pharmaceuticals and steel, he said on Monday, to push companies to manufacture more in the United States. The comments mark the latest in a number of trade-related threats unleashed by Trump in recent days.

Calling Biden’s CHIPS Act incentives ‘ridiculous,’ he claimed companies will build new plants in the US to avoid higher taxes and called DeepSeek’s AI a ‘positive.’

Though the United States is the global leader in designing chips, the vast majority of chip production happens overseas.

President Donald Trump has stated that he plans to impose tariffs as high as 100% on semiconductors made outside the U.S. Trump previewed the plan Monday afternoon during a GOP event in his Doral, Florida golf resort.