>> Does it really matter? Does TSMC have a choice either way?
Sure. Go home and make chips. Pass the tarrif costs on to customers. Would US customers have a choice?
Sure. Go home and make chips. Pass the tarrif costs on to customers. Would US customers have a choice?
So yes, US companies do have a choice. They can lobby Congress to cut off TSMC from their main hardware and parts supplier entirely, crippling it altogether, except for their Arizona plant which is ripe for nationalization for natsec.
For the cutting edge stuff TSMC is a monopoly.