TP-Link’s US manufacturing plans are a strategic response to Trump’s foreign router ban, which currently blocks its new Wi-Fi 8 devices while competitors receive waivers.
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A TP-Link Wi-Fi 8 router. | Image: TP-Link TP-Link, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer Wi-Fi routers, is in a precarious position in the US. The company just launched its first Wi-Fi 8 routers, but can't bring them here because of President Donald Trump's foreign router ban. Even though competitors Netgear and Asus make their routers in Asia, they've mysteriously obtained blanket waivers for all their new gear; perhaps because of alleged ties to China, TP-Link hasn't managed to get such a waiver yet. But TP-Link is willing to do something those companies weren't - to invest nearly $1 billion to make routers in the United States, creating "hundreds of high-paying re … Read the full story at The Verge.
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