Fears of Even Pricier GPUs Mount as President Trump Targets TSMC with New Tariffs, Possibly Reaching as High as 100%

[Tsing]

The GeForce RTX 5090, a new flagship "Blackwell" GPU for gamers, creators, and developers that NVIDIA will be launching this week to deliver what it says is a new world of AI computer graphics for $1,999, may soon seem like a pretty sweet deal despite costing $400 more than its predecessor, the Ada-based GeForce RTX 4090, according to the latest word from President Trump about how he plans to implement a tariff on chips made in Taiwan, one that could reach as high as 100% and affect a wide range of consumer electronics, including video game consoles, smartphones, and graphics cards for PCs.

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[Uvilla]

Im pretty sure these things are used as part of the melt up strategy. There arent that many options to massively inflate the dollar in order to handle the absolutly absurd deficit that has been created, for which the minimum payment is now complete collapse level, no discusion, we are there.
Well if you can do the melt up strategy while getting people rah-rah-ing against China, well there you go.
I dont agree with any of it, but its a sound strategy and achieves 2 goals at once.