wait they are going to move manufacturing out of china? isn’t that what the tariffs were supposed to do? shit
If tariffs work, then fuck yeah. I don’t think they will in the long run, but if we end up winning the lottery I’m not going to get upset because I didn’t like the numbers we picked
It’s also super not worth all of the other shit we have to put up with, but let’s take what wins we can
Edit: of course they aren’t moving manufacturing to the US, so I guess this hurts China at our own expense. I guess it’s only a win for whatever country they move manufacturing to
They were supposed to force those manufacturing plants to go to USA, but as the article shows it is not working:
[AsRock] “As for the 10% tariff applied to other products like GPU cards, we need some time to transfer the manufacturing to other countries.” [emphasis on the plural]
We already saw signs of this late last year, when PC Partner decided to relocate its headquarters from China to Singapore
And they likely won’t move into USA territory because USA might create some tax against the governments they import raw materials from, labour costs are high, and all that talk about expelling illegal immigrants will make labour costs even higher (lower labour supply = higher prices).
outside of china tho
Yes and this might hurt China a bit, but it’ll hurt USA even more. It’s like shitting your own pants to make someone else smell it.
sounds like trump to me
Yup, it does sound like him. But I genuinely believe that his goal is manufactories beelining to USA, and that doesn’t seem too likely for me.
I’ll go further. My headcanon is that Trump didn’t come up with this idea; someone else did, and carefully led Trump to it. That person knows that the manufactories won’t go to USA, but they don’t really care - they benefit from USA being economical and politically isolated, perhaps even at its population having decreased living standards.
EDIT: or, summed up in a single picture.
It will just divert manufacturing to places like Vietnam or Mexico.
sounds like not-china to me
No they arent lmao
Who?
Not trying to be sassy.
ASRock, as per the lore passed down to me by a former coworker, started as a low cost, second line, for ASUS.
They would just throw crazy mobos together, often with new technologies and new types of components, to test the reaction of the markets. If a particular feature or design was well accepted, ASUS would improve it, repackage it and sell main brand boards with it.
Apparently, at some point, the brand became so popular it was spun-off and became a company on its own.
I have very good experience with their products.
asrock is a pc parts manufacturer. used to see them a lot but in recent years not so much. I like their motherboards.
A few years ago (when Intel’s 12th gen got released) got an i7 11700kf + a Z590 mobo for $180 USD from a guy on Marketplace, and the motherboard is an AsRock Z590ac . The price was a steal but now it got me wondering if the previous owner didn’t know the brand and that’s why he got rid of it so cheap. Still works great and even runs Mac OS with clover.
They’re still one of the most prominent companies if you’re shopping for a mainboard or graphics card. They even have Intel GPUs in their lineup.
They’re pretty damn big now. My MB is Asrock, it’s one of the best for the AM5 generation. Tons of users are running their boards with the 9800x3d.
