Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC is reportedly taking interest in Intel's stateside manufacturing plants claims The Wall Street Journal in an article published on Saturday. The news follows Trump's recent claims that the United States will be "placing tariffs on foreign production of computer chips" in the near future.
The fear of Trump's tariffs has sent the wider industry into a panic, with a large percentage of semiconductor fabrication taking place overseas leading many to hypothesize an exponential increase in the cost of consumer technology is on the horizon.
