Friday, September 28th 2018
Graphics Card Manufacturing Being Moved From China in Bid to Escape Import Tariffs - Price to Increase 5-10%
The trade war between the US and China has been raging for a while now, and graphics cards are a minimal part of the goods affected. However, these are some of the most sought-after products in the hardware community, and thus deserving of special attention. Added tariffs, however, will either a) be absorbed by companies, or b) be passed on to customers at increased retail pricing. Since companies don't want to reduce their profit margin, and know consumers will buy less product at higher prices, steps are being taken by AIB (Add In Board) partners from both AMD and NVIDIA in moving graphics card manufacturing out of China.
Options being most seriously considered and acted upon stand as Taiwan and Mexico, where the lack of any additional tariff, added to relatively cheap labor, would allow manufacturers to keep operating costs relatively stable - and thus end user pricing. However, while this search for alternate manufacturing locations continues, the tariffs are already being pressed upon graphics cards makers, and it's expected that pricing of graphics cards will be facing increases of 5-10% in the coming months. As if we needed additional price increases in some old (and especially new) product lines...
Source:
TechSpot
Options being most seriously considered and acted upon stand as Taiwan and Mexico, where the lack of any additional tariff, added to relatively cheap labor, would allow manufacturers to keep operating costs relatively stable - and thus end user pricing. However, while this search for alternate manufacturing locations continues, the tariffs are already being pressed upon graphics cards makers, and it's expected that pricing of graphics cards will be facing increases of 5-10% in the coming months. As if we needed additional price increases in some old (and especially new) product lines...
98 Comments on Graphics Card Manufacturing Being Moved From China in Bid to Escape Import Tariffs - Price to Increase 5-10%
You also selectively responded to his reply by focusing on the trade deficit which is really nothing more than copy pasting popular media. Care to also respond to megacorp tax evasion while you're at it? And how deregulated financial markets are a staple of Republicans since day one? Or is that one of those painful truths you choose to ignore, like many others? Oh no wait - its fake news!
As for 'the service thing'... guess what, after an industrial revolution and modernization following upon it, we ourselves (literally everyone) decided that moving manufacturing to low cost countries was a great move and eventually automation and robotization would take over anyway. We knew that in the future, knowledge is power to the n'th degree, and workforce as simple laborers has no future at all. The current situation confirms this. There simply are fewer hands needed where machines can do the job, and they can do it. And wherever hands are truly needed, you want either very skilled and dedicated craftsman (high end, low volume product) or very good technicians and people who know more than how to push the on/off button. The same thing will happen in China. So let's fast forward a few decades... when the US has gone back to manual labor and the rest of the world has moved on. At that point, the US will be forced into China's position, forced to steal technology to keep up with reality. Also, anyone who believes that you can still do simple labor without using any brain cells, is just living in alternate lala-land. That time has passed, education matters now more than it ever did.
You should read my earlier post, and think hard on what's in there, perhaps you can see some logic you didn't before. And do read all of it, not just what you like to hear
'My eyes are open'... you know where that line comes from? The religious nuts in Far Cry 5, and many other fanatics and extremists. Another oneliner you may want to think hard about.
EDIT: -1 is a pretty sad response, but to each his own. I'll take it as denial.
BTW, I've never said you should 'trust' me. I never asked you to trust me. The only people who ask that, are those who will betray that trust (and are probably already doing it right now). Logic doesn't need trust, it just needs attention.
Now if that's enough for you that goods aren't being manufactured in China, that's fine, but you shouldn't hold onto the hope that this will somehow reduce the trade deficit in general, it won't. In fact it's possible we see the deficit continue to grow, as the cost of labor in Taiwan & Mexico is at least 30% higher than it is in mainland China.
As for that pudding you mention, I'm genuinely curious what you consider to be proof of effective policy right now. Got a few links?
By the way, when it comes to Mexico and the idea of reducing illegal immigration originating from there by creating jobs, that does echo logic and reason to me. Its the very thing any kind of traditional aid to poor countries always lacks and why it never works. You need to improve the economy and living standards at home to keep people there. So in that respect, I can only applaud the move.
It seems neither you or Obama himself really wanted to get used to it and now claim things that aren't yours.
And if it took 8 years for those engines to actually get rolling, it's still a stupid economical plan on that alone. Obama burns himself even when he tries to claim things.
www.wsj.com/articles/another-recession-is-looming-1538088367
These are the real engines. The simple flow of economy's ups and downs, which always span multiple years. Trump took office at the end of the 2008 recession, so now we see some mild recovery after new investments were made - again - before Trump took office. The second link shows that the future may really not be that bright however.
To think large scale economical change has any relation to new policy is tunnel vision.
Confidence is what boosts an economy. Or what they like to call "animal spirits" (coined by a liberal Keynes btw.. but at least he wasn't an idiot on this). It's the same reason Reagan's 80s immediately boomed when he got in office, after the slow drag of Carter. Carter didn't do jack to set up Reagan up either. Confidence did.
When your President is a self-defeatist who talks about "new normals", there is no chance of confidence from either markets or consumers. And higher regulations and taxes produce inaction, not action. Hell, many of the big companies went outright lawless and shelved their cash overseas. Nothing even circulated.
I'd go further. I'd say it's a drop in the bucket. That's assuming we even get it.
Meanwhile, we are all hurting for it in our holiday electronics spree. Majorly, if it goes to 30%. You want to fix the deficit? Look at defunding armed forces (we already pay many times more than any other nation in the entire world, including Russia), raising taxes, or both. None of these are on Trump's agenda.You could try to teach them in a less agressive way. It's not like they are trying to laugh at us, but behavior like this just asks for it frankly.I feel like that ship sailed. And it depresses me greatly.
thehill.com/homenews/administration/333358-obama-equated-trumps-success-to-the-goal-of-the-american-dream-as-law
“Americans have a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average American—I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will” - Barack Obama 1991
Where tho, may I ask, do we bash their countries? So no, my aggression is out now, and well justified.
But sometimes it goes to far and I blow up so I hear you....
It's been there. But it's mostly been at one country in particular. It starts with a V and is probably earned. Oh, and I've seen a lot of generic socialism bashing, frankly, but nothing aimed.
So yeah, bash away for that. Please. edit: Sorry.. that's the last of my politics here. :)