Keeping a close hold on advanced technology has *always* been a matter of national security. Furthermore, national security and economic security are very closely entwined.
China has a long history of reverse engineering our technology and stealing intellectual property. Our trade war with them has been going on for decades. These idiots who are busy getting the vapors over the Trump administration efforts to fight back don't seem to realize that the decades of buying cheap knock-offs from China have been damaging our economy. Shuttering manufacturing plants and putting people out of work so that we can buy cheap gadgets made using slave labor does *not* help the country.
Thank God for President Trump.
This is very risky.
Most computers including Apple are built in China.
Most Windows computers are built by the same companies in China and then repackaged with different plastic.
Inte and Apple are not going to like this.
We truly have a patriot for a President!
Trump is hoping the threat is sufficient to drive change.
If not, then the actual imposition is likely to have the desired effect in short order.
I am today announcing my intent to raise tariffs on as much as $300 million in Japanese exports to the United States. I am taking these actions in response to Japan's inability to enforce our September 1986 agreement on semiconductor trade. Regrettably, Japan has not enforced major provisions of the agreement aimed at preventing dumping of semiconductor chips in third country markets and improving U.S. producers' access to the Japanese market. I am committed to the full enforcement of our trade agreements designed to provide American industry with free and fair trade opportunities.
Remember what happened next? This time is a little different since China is not our friend. The result will be the same though.
The artcle always refers to sales of US brand chips, not the export of US brand chips. I know some chips are made in the US, but does anyone know what portion of US brand chips are still produced here?
No, you help them by using the leverage/national power at your disposal to drive FAIR trade arrangements on a bilateral basis.
Unlike those who would sell the nation’s wealth and prosperity for a chance to skim a percent off the top.
And, their advocates.
Intel opens first chip manufacturing plant in China
Lots of chip activity in China involving Intel and others.
Intel chip production in China
I think this article is mostly about the sale of chips to China from a national security viewpoint, not necessarily the export of chips. And that Google just covers Intel.
But there are still many Intel plants in the US, but it looks like most of the assembly and testing is done in cheap labor nations.
List of Intel manufacturing sites
I believe a huge amount of US brand chip production, testing and assembly has already been moved to cheap labor nations.