{"id":986138,"date":"2026-01-17T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986138"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:45:14","slug":"days-after-trump-announced-25-cut-on-nvidias-ai-chips-white-house-official-says-it-is-only-phase-one-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/days-after-trump-announced-25-cut-on-nvidias-ai-chips-white-house-official-says-it-is-only-phase-one-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Days after Trump announced 25% \u2018cut\u2019 on Nvidia\u2019s AI chips, White House official says it is only \u2018phase one\u2019 action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Commerce Department\u2019s decision to impose a 25% national security tariff on certain high-end semiconductors is only the \u201cphase one\u201d step, a White House official said. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the move, announced earlier this week is being described as a \u201cphase one\u201d action aimed at protecting the US semiconductor sector.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said further announcements could follow after talks with other countries and companies. The comments suggest that the tariff policy may expand depending on how negotiations progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Commerce Department\u2019s decision to impose a 25% national security tariff on certain high-end semiconductors is only the \u201cphase one\u201d step, a White House official said. According to a report by news agency Reuters, the move, announced earlier this week is being described as a \u201cphase one\u201d action aimed at protecting the US semiconductor sector. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said further announcements could follow after talks with other countries and companies. The comments suggest that the tariff policy may expand depending on how negotiations progress.<\/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-986138","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\/986138","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=986138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}