The U.S. government and President Donald Trump have announced new tariffs on the import of semiconductor equipment, specifically Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) MI325X chips and Nvidia’s (NVDA) H200 chips. The 25% tariffs are expected to encourage local manufacturing of semiconductor equipment and reduce reliance on foreign vendors. The administration has not ruled out future tariffs for the achievement of these objectives. It is worth noting that startups, domestic data centers, the public sector, and chi ...