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HN recommends it for concrete numbers on what tariffs do to small hardware businesses.
A long Gamers Nexus investigation into how volatile US tariffs affect the computer hardware industry. It interviews manufacturers and sellers about costs, margins and why moving production to the US is hard.
“Best part is having a product manager show a spreadsheet of costs and margins and explain in real terms ($$$) what tariffs do to their business.” (HN, 2025)
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Gamers Nexus essentially produced a 3-hr doc on how changing tariffs affect the US computer industry: "The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation" [this video] . Best part is having a product manager show a spreadsheet of costs and margins and explain in real terms ($$$) what tariffs do to their business.
Long documentary with a product manager showing costs and margins under tariffs
Similarly HYTE, mostly known for their PC cases, gives a remarkably detailed insight, both into their cost structure and how they are impacted by tariffs, in this video: [this video] They also address the question of moving their production to the US.
HYTE details cost structure, tariff impact and US production question
gamers nexus did a great (and very long) video on the impact of tariffs on US computer businesses. Some of the manufacturers went into quite a bit of detail breaking down their costs and how tariffs would render some products so unprofitable that they would cease to serve the US market. Not sure if it necessarily applies to a niche/low volume business, but the impacts on a larger business were eye opening: [this video] tariffs have chopped and changed so much since this video that the specific tariff amounts mentioned are likely not accurate.
Manufacturers break down costs and tariff impacts; amounts now outdated
I think the point is kind of moot. I doubt they own any part of their manufacturing at the moment. Unless manufacturing already exists in the US (which I doubt here), I don't believe company this size has any chance to move manufacturing to the US The GamerNexus video already mentioned elsewhere explore those issues: [this video] .
Explores why small companies can't move manufacturing to the US
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