r/wallstreetbets • u/MikeMikeGaming AI bubble survivor • Jan 28 '25

News Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://au.pcmag.com/computers-electronics/109466/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Why don't we kick Nvidia while it's down am I rite?

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u/WUMW Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

dons tilfoil hat

China unveiled DeepSea and its lower-gen chip usage to reduce the value of Taiwan’s cutting-edge chip-making facilities and make defending it a lower priority of the US

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u/thebarnhouse Jan 28 '25

That's not even crazy.

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u/mines_over_yours Jan 28 '25

I was looking fo the "actual play" by China, this sounds plausible.

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u/KTenshi2 Jan 28 '25

I reached the same conclusion. It doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility.

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u/Krungoid Jan 28 '25

Reduce the value of Taiwan as a US aligned state through their manufacturing capacity and investment into lithography. Increase the cost of a potential military intervention through their naval capacity and eventually re-unify politically.

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u/22Arkantos Jan 28 '25

of the US

of Trump.

The people in the US capable of actual strategic thinking know that abandoning Taiwan is a completely idiotic suggestion.

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u/Clown_Penis-Dot-Fart Jan 28 '25

It was my 11th thought

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u/2CommaNoob Jan 28 '25

That's some 5D chess they are playing....

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u/jblade Jan 28 '25

https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/DFVXCiMuHWL

I think the craziness today was a bit disproportional. I am curious if DeepSeek will share how much having all these users on their model actually costs vs the costs of training it