Taiwan’s government will soon look at whether it needs to help its domestic industry over threats by President Donald Trump to put tariffs on semiconductors, Premier Cho Jung-tai said on Wednesday.

No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate Americans could soon see the price of electronics skyrocket in response to a 25-100 percent tariff on computer chips promised by US President Donald Trump on Monday.

President Donald Trump has threatened to introduce tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, which could hit Nvidia, one of TSMC's biggest customers.

Semiconductor business between Taiwan and the United States is a "win-win" model for both sides given the high level of complementarity, the government said on Tuesday in response to tariff threats from U.

Though the United States is the global leader in designing chips, the vast majority of chip production happens overseas.

Donald Trump called for tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals from places like Taiwan in the near future.

Imposing tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals could weigh on Japan, home of major drugmakers such as Takeda, Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo and Eisai, which has been expecting strong sales growth in the U.S. of its Alzheimer's disease drug Leqembi.

On Monday, as DeepSeek’s recently introduced innovations wiped over $1 trillion off the value of U.S. stocks, and just days after announcing a privately funded $500 billion AI infrastructure push, President Donald Trump said DeepSeek’s rise was “a wake-up call for our industries that we should be laser-focused on competing to win.”

President Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Commerce Department will tell senators on Wednesday he will "take a thoughtful and rigorous approach" to overseeing the agency but did not offer any specifics on tariffs or China policy.

Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m. EST President Donald Trump said at a House Republican retreat that the launch of the AI model was “a positive development” but should be considered a “wake-up” call for U.S. industries, lauding the move for what he hoped would usher in a future of “coming up with a faster method of AI, and much less expensive method.”

President Donald Trump previously criticized the CHIPS and Science Act, leading to speculation over whether the law could be repealed or tweaked under the new administration.