A Trump tax means you’ll pay even more for Nvidia and AMD’s impossible-to-find graphics cards
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Don't Build a High-End Gaming PC Right Now," Tom's Hardware declared in November. This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gaming PC," ExtremeTech echoed last month. But it's looking like the worst time to build a new gaming rig is still to come. That's because a perfect storm is pushing the price of components like must-have Nvidia or AMD graphics cards even further skyward - and because Donald Trump is now part of that storm.
The Trump administration is now imposing a 25 percent tax on graphics cards imported from China, and at least one PC component manufacturer has announced it'll pass along part of that cost to consumers.
We've known for two years that PC components were being swept up in Trump's trade war on China. In 2018, G...