hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.

got any legit sources to reference? legitimately curious. I need to know which harmonized codes are excluded.

From an electrical engineering perspective H O S E D. Historically, “Oh you want to manufacture something cheaply but can’t due to IP issues or CCP conflicts of interests? Why not Malaysia, Vietnam or the Philippines?”

People got to realize this is gonna jack up the supply chain so hard. Texas Instruments an IC manufacturer produces some stuff in texas. If my production is in Malaysia then surprise! Tariff to send components to Malaysia. But wait, programming, testing, packaging, and inventory of the boards is in the USA. So the PCBA is surprise surprise Tariff again. Now that the board is considered finished and ready to be sold, it turns out your customer is in china or anywhere else in the world…. So tariff. These Tariffs compound. The business isn’t going to foot the bill so its gonna get pushed to customers.

I am really curious how the TSMC foundry in AZ is gonna work out. They can produce the wafers but packaging is done still in Taiwan. So tariff to Taiwan , tariff again back to the USA, and the tariff again because its an advanced electronic component?

Isn’t pesticides just bee assassination on a mass scale? Thus, I argue, we cannot not yet rule that out.

I look at it through money. Where is its HQ located at and where does it “apparently” pay its taxes. If any of that Info is in USA then it’s an American Company. Hit their bottom line by not paying into what they are dealing.

Yes and no? I would make the distinction its American Designed hardware regardless of where it was manufactured. Manufacturing these days is a cheap commodity no matter what. 100% China would outsource manufacturing to African countries if it made economic sense over domestic production in China. At the end of the day you really got to figure out what your intentions are. Boycotting USA? By stuff designed and sold by companies outside the USA. Buying non exploitative and ethically procured and manufactured electronics? Well let me know if such a thing exists.

Moore Threads is a domestic Chinese company that seems to be trying to compete with NVIDIA, AMD. Their GPUs look comparable to GTX 10xx series cards. Wish I could get ahold of one to try it out. I hear the drivers are pretty crappy but have been getting better fairly recently. Fortunately, most parts are fundamentally based in Taiwan due to TSMC so you might have to research clients of TSMC to find alternatives. CPUs are a pain point. INTEL or AMD. ARM is cool but until RISC really takes off, your going to be tied to at least one or two american companies.

Doubt it. Weather changing sounds an awful lot like climate change which is a “woke” DEI concept of the liberal left. /s

please get me off of this wild ride. I miss when politics were boring.

Normally I would agree. But this is one of those rare instances I say, “Oh shit something is up.” Rather than saying, “How progressive of our government to pilot remote work!”

Not as impossible sounding. I mean I would never attempt it but you might be able to get away with it using a stencil, solder paste and one of those fancy toaster ovens with a broil setting. ROI would suck since you are probably gonna fail the first couple of times.