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Jacob Fox

In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China

A photo of MSI Shenzhen motherboard production facility.

As part of Trump's seemingly isolationist strategy to grow the country's economy (and apparently combat fentanyl use), the US President recently introduced tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada. Although the latter two have been delayed, tariffs against China are in force, and we're already seeing signs of potential impact in the PC gaming sector.

Motherboard and graphics card manufacturer ASRock told PCMag that it will be moving at least some of its manufacturing away from China: "As for the 10% tariff applied to other products like GPU cards, we need some time to transfer the manufacturing to other countries."

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