Applied Materials, I have to stop answering these questions. If someone does know how to Google information, they definitely won’t understand what I trying to tell them.
I guess google doesn’t tell you where they source their inputs. The company was recently investigated ref breaking sanctions in supplying chip manufacturing tech to a company with links to the military in China. Apparently 43% of Applied’s total revenue came from China in the 2nd quarter of this year.
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I know, but there are a few other companies out there.
I had talked about that company before. Back when the “car manufacturers in the United States” couldn’t get certain chips to manufacturer cars (vehicles ) here in the US. And was always saying, we make the machines here that make the chips.
Totalitarian propaganda followed by Fascist ritual dancing.
you are a fine one to be making that statement.
It seems they have shared that technology with China, which is why they are being investigated. It went via South Korea, but who knows what has really gone on in that deal. US trade is intricately intertwined with China. So any tariff will impact on US businesses & US customers, jobs and price of goods.
I think it was Surfermom said that the idea is that US manufacturing will fill the gap if and when these tariffs hit, but that would imply that there is a vast amount of spare capacity sitting around idle. That doesn’t make sense to me. No business can carry that scale of spare capacity and be a going concern. Only the government could support that level of investment and waste. But I don’t think that investment is there. Or it’s been kept very quiet.
So yes you can roll out tariffs but I don’t think Trump will go ahead because to actually do it would be very unwise politically. It’s a bluff to negotiate a better deal. That’s why the markets didn’t take the announcement seriously.
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News flash: when I was transporting their machines to all those countries mentioned above, was between 2000 to 2004. So I am assuming they provide technology to all those countries.
Don’t know the route but they all had destination plainly posted.
Am surprised how naive/ignorant some are with opinions. FYI if material is setting around in warehouses, it is taxed but if it’s setting in a commercial trailer or rail car, it is not taxed because it is considered in transit.
It may be a bluff but Trumps is not even in office yet and is dealing with more international leaders and representatives, than the whole of Biden/Harris administration.
But, Trump is replacing the worst President in the history of the USA. The bar hasn’t been very high the last four years.
I didn’t say anything about stock sitting in a warehouse. I said manufacturing spare capacity. Not materials, not finished goods, just an empty facility ready to get all these goods the US needs manufactured when the suppliers in China/Mexico or Canada don’t oblige Trump.
I asked about inputs that this semiconductor manufacturer uses because I am interested whether there are any imported raw materials used in processing these semiconductors. However, you don’t have the answer and google doesn’t either.
You have chosen to quote the 10th Post from this thread, dating back to 13th February, which was a direct response to the 6th Post.
The 6th Post was the first time any name-calling had happened on this thread, so if the other name-calling epithets you have mentioned have been posted in this thread, they must have been written at a later date.
Therefore, I do not know why you quoted my early post in conjunction with those later examples of name-calling because I could not possibly have drawn attention to those examples, when my post which you quoted was written before any of those later comments had been written!
I never use any of these silly nicknames myself and I think it demeans the debate and demeans whatever point they are making. I wish other folk wouldn’t do it either but I have already made that point in this thread and I don’t intend to keep repeating it every time another example crops up.
Sometimes, these nicknames are so obscure I don’t even know who they are talking about! Like that time you mentioned putting Brandon on stage in the Presidential Debate and I had no idea who that was!
In the last few months, on another forum, I have seen references to someone in British politics being referred to as “the Green millipede” - I had no idea who was being referred to for a few months (even Google couldn’t help me solve that puzzle) until someone finally used this politician’s proper name in reply to a post about “the Green millipede” - turns out it was Ed Miliband. 
I would never have guessed.
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I showed you all those because you thought it was important enough to bring it to my attention and with a bios in play, you talked to bring it to others attention as the other one did.
And still haven’t mention anything to the latter posters.
I took the time to go back through the conversation and this is all I found
I didn’t understand it then and I don’t understand it now. I work with Brandon L. and he doesn’t think it’s insulting. He finds it humorous. They chant it a sporting event and reporting those chants on national television. The American are chanting it across the country.
It started on nation television, it’s not banded in the new, public or any place else in the US.
We seem to be misunderstanding each other. I don’t understand your reply, so I’m afraid I cannot respond to it.
What do you think I brought to your attention?
It started at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. Brandon Brown, a 28-year-old driver, had won his first Xfinity Series and was being interviewed by an NBC Sports reporter. The crowd behind him was chanting something at first difficult to make out. The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F— Joe Biden.”
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Thanks, Galty. Robin had already posted a link about it back on 28 June, when I first asked him who Brandon was, so I know that now.
I hadn’t known before our discussion in June, which was why I asked who Brandon was when Robin mentioned him in a response to one of my posts.
We had been discussing the Presidential Debate and I had said I thought it was sad the choice had been whittled down to two candidates who I thought were both too elderly to be standing for another term in office.
Robin told us there was not just 2 Candidates - there was actually 3 or 4 candidates running for the Presidency. In the same post, he mentioned Brandon had not been forced to go on stage, so I asked who he was - I wondered if he was one of the other Candidates.
That’s when Robin kindly posted a link to a couple of articles, one to explain who the 4 candidates were and the other explaining the “Brandon” name - the article called it a “coded insult” for Biden, so that cleared up that misunderstanding.
I’m not sure why it has been raised again now, all these months later. As far as I’m concerned, it was all explained back in June.
it’s being raised now because Robin is more comfortable discussing historic posts than explaining how these tariffs will work in the US economy’s favour.
Thanks for the suggestion to check out Applied Materials. They do not make the machines that make everything that goes into electronics. You got that wrong. They do make equipment to make microchips but they are not the only company doing this nor are they even the largest maker of such equipment. So even if they make a lot of machines that make a lot of microchips there is no way that their machines make the majority of such components. This company could disappear tomorrow and there would still be plenty of production of microchips. And making machines that make components does not mean you know how to make a flat screen smart TV. Not even close.
Didn’t say the were the largest.
Have not seen any electronics that don’t require a waffle board for a few decades.
Biden was doing an interview and forgot who he was talking to. But I have to say, he staying consistent, forgets what or whom he is talking to or about.
Where is the VP? Who is sharing all the important decision making with Biden. How can the US survive with out her professional point of view. I guess her ideas on fixing the economy are top secret or she didn’t have one!
Actually they might be the only company that make machines for making microchips Lincs…
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