Trump Plans to Tax Chips in the “Single Dumbest Way Imaginable”

“This is fine.” Trump’s timing is impeccable, as usual: after the AI boom helped turn RAMageddon into a sustained memory price surge, he has apparently decided that what data centres, PC builders and everyone buying electronics need next is a tax on the chips themselves. And this lands just as the AI industry’s “teaser period” is supposed to end–when vast take-or-pay compute commitments become actual bills and utilisation starts to matter. Nothing says “winning the AI race” quite like making the entire stack more expensive just before the economics get real…