I get that what Musk quoted is not a trivial task, and if accurate, is probably much quicker than OEMs and Big Auto could do since Tesla is presumably much bett

I get that what Musk quoted is not a trivial task, and if accurate, is probably much quicker than OEMs and Big Auto could do since Tesla is presumably much better at software. The article quotes Intel at 16nm, which is, what, 10 years from cutting edge process node? At this point mature OEMs and Big Auto should have been on a refresh process to auto-migrate forward the chips. The semiconductor industry is 40-50 years old now. And new generations produce better chips (cost, power use, performance). As other comments say, it smacks of laziness and lack of forecasting. Tesla has other advantages, since they are so much more vertically integrated, they can probably manage migrations a lot more easily and centrally. Big Auto is more like "Big assemble OEM parts". OEMs make all the components, Big Auto just wants to screw them into place and wire them together. It's part of why they suck at software that integrates things: They don't make any of the components, and a dozen different departments order them from a hundred suppliers, so getting interfaces/protocols/specs is a lot more time consuming than for Tesla.