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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They will first go "I don't buy those damn consoles and gamer PCs every few years", then find out once their new iPhones will be much more expensive...

[–] TheFonz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They seem to like cars a lot. Remember when there was a car shortage because chip manufacturing froze during Covid?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Issue with that, they would love to have "chipless" cars they can repair with a screwdriver and a wrench.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everything will be more expensive, if it uses a modern CPU. Phones, tablets, computers of any type from any company (both Intel and AMD are fabbing consumer CPUs on TSMC, as is Apple and Qualcomm), TVs, set top boxes, everything.

Right now TSMC is basically the only fab anything consumer-facing is made on, which is not a great thing in general, but vice president trump just decided that anything electronic needs a hefty price hike.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And remember, once the price goes up, it rarely goes down. Even after the tariffs reverted in the future.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 days ago

There was a time...