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Surely you mean chip design and not manufacturing.
by DSingularity 5y ago
Surely you mean chip design and not manufacturing.
- gpm 5y agoThey're apparently already in chip design, so surely he means manufacturing as the potential new business line?
- elif 5y agoThey already do chip design. You could s/chip/battery/ and make the same incredulous statement 5 years ago Or upholstery, or charging infrastructure, or casting equipment, etc. Tesla had the capital to go as vertical as they want.
- njarboe 5y agoTesla doesn't makes their own casting equipment (yet?). They do custom order the largest presses built by Idra Group in Italy (owned by a Chinese company) though [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga_Press
- bob1029 5y agoNo - I mean manufacturing. At a certain level of demand it could make sense, especially if the classes of devices you seek to produce are heterogeneous in their engineering - aerospace vs phone vs car. The other advantage with vertical integration through the manufacturing piece is turn around time on new designs. It is a lot faster/easier to spin new test lots for speculative designs when everyone works for the same org.