yes, an increase of all pre-April 8 tariffs so *only* 24% increase. BUT there are lots of other tariffs. 301 tariffs (eg semiconductors, solar components, tungsten) stack on top of current and future snap-back tariffs whereas 232 tariffs (eg tariffs on Chinese cars) do not

6/and I don't see any reason this will be different.

The multiple masking that SMIC is doing has a much better chance of getting there, since at some
point they can just eat the cost.

5/the thin semiconducting film rather than define the length with lithography. They did a nice job of talking about the tools they built to design the processor, but the actual tested circuits were pieces. Yield reliability of a new material has rarely made it against super scaled CMOS

4/Like many academic papers these days there is a lot of exaggeration. The technical contribution was an integrated processor fo 2-D transistors. Essentially since the channel is vertical they can define the channel length which is the distance the charge has to travel with deposition of

3/talked to EE professor who is an expert in semiconductors about the paper

2/this research came from this paper in Nature

LSE International Development blog post on our new book @gerhardschnyder.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

2/or rather Taiwan's fiscal probity is not actually a good thing. Taiwan could use more spending on fiscal base. Taiwan's current expenditures as %GDP are lower than any OECD country and half that of the OECD average