{"id":921117,"date":"2025-04-10T11:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921117"},"modified":"2025-04-10T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:31:41","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-says-he-threatened-apple-chipmaker-with-100-tax-tsmc-i-gave-them-no-money-all-i-did-was-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/10\/us-president-donald-trump-says-he-threatened-apple-chipmaker-with-100-tax-tsmc-i-gave-them-no-money-all-i-did-was-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says he threatened Apple chipmaker with 100% tax: \u2018TSMC, I gave them no money\u2026 all I did was say\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has stated that he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that it will be subjected to a tax of up to 100% should the company fail to construct its planned factories within the country. This development coincides with a separate report indicating that the Apple chipmaker could potentially face a penalty of $1 billion or more to resolve an ongoing export control investigation regarding a chip it manufactured that was subsequently found within a Huawei AI processor.<\/p>\n<p>During a Republican National Congressional Committee event, Trump criticised Joe Biden&#8217;s administration for granting TSMC\u2019s US unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona, arguing that chip companies do not require such financial assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has stated that he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) that it will be subjected to a tax of up to 100% should the company fail to construct its planned factories within the country. This development coincides with a separate report indicating that the Apple chipmaker could potentially face a penalty of $1 billion or more to resolve an ongoing export control investigation regarding a chip it manufactured that was subsequently found within a Huawei AI processor. During a Republican National Congressional Committee event, Trump criticised Joe Biden&#8217;s administration for granting TSMC\u2019s US unit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}