Largest supplier is Norway. The US is on there, but other suppliers can easily take up that slack. My point is - and it's something most Americans aren't aware of - if America disappeared off the market in a puff of smoke (which appears to be Trump's goal - either accidentally or deliberately),
Europe would not vanish into the Iron Age or even the 1950s. China, etc would take up the slack and just divert their production from America to the second largest world market: the EU. Graphics cards would become more expensive, but I suspect other companies would rise to compete - it's a HUGE
market. And once that can of worms is opened, American companies like NVidia would find it very hard to make the case that their products get 20 or 30% more FPS...but cost 3-4x more money. And that gap would close over time, once the market potential becomes evident. Almost every PC in the world
has an Intel, NVidia or AMD graphics chipset right now. And that's a REALLY big market. If - WHEN - someone like Korea, Japan or China get a wedge in the market with a trade war in progress - 95% of the world will have an alternative. And no one but gamers cares if their business PCs have a
Non-"big 3" graphics chipset installed. ARM, Jingjia, Samsung, Moore Threads all make non-US graphics chipsets. And if the US gets pasted out of the market by their own tariffs, those companies will eat the Big 3 alive. There's a market for 7.25bn non-American consumers, and they're slitting their
We make the only chip machines that can actually produce the chips that Nvidia makes. That's one part of what the US imports as well. And will have to pay more for. Since no one else makes these. So chips in the US will become more expensive and everyone will look at alternatives
Wait - I said what you were saying! Haha Sorry about that. I misunderstood - still, an opportunity for us to teach others! Go Netherlands! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Ho...
I noticed haha !
The machines that make chips don't come from America. They're from the EU, believe it or not. It's hard to believe, but it's true. The machine that uses liquid metal to make chips is European. They even have to buy them in China from Europe.
own throats.