The Trump tariffs could financially hit Apple's chip production partnership with TSMC, after the President insisted the import taxes will be applied to semiconductors and other specific industries in the near future.

The tariffs would ensnare cutting-edge smartphone and PC-related chips for Apple, AMD and Nvidia if enacted. But Trump is betting his plan will bring more chip production to the US.

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, which could hit Nvidia, one of TSMC's biggest customers.

Today, most of the world's semiconductor manufacturing comes from TSMC, which has spent years expanding its operations in Taiwan as a hedge against Chinese aggression. The world needs TSMC, which helps to keep the CCP's "one China" rhetoric just that—rhetoric.

President Donald Trump announced that the USA is looking to place tariffs on Chinese assembled electronics and chips produced in Taiwan.

Taiwan's government has been swift to respond to the talk of huge tariffs by the recently inaugurated 47th president of the United States.

Trump's speech did not provide additional details about his proposed tariffs. However, speaking to reporters afterward, he stated his intention to implement a "much bigger" tariff

Calling Biden’s CHIPS Act incentives ‘ridiculous,’ he claimed companies will build new plants in the US to avoid higher taxes and called DeepSeek’s AI a ‘positive.’