One easy way for the automakers to solve their problems would be to exploit Moore's law, and move all of their designs to a 28nm planar node of transistor produ

One easy way for the automakers to solve their problems would be to exploit Moore's law, and move all of their designs to a 28nm planar node of transistor production (which are somewhat more durable than the smaller FINFET nodes). Because many of them were still at 180nm (or higher), they wasted the silicon material with a much larger die size. Spend the money to stay current. Nobody is going to mass-produce vacuum tubes for you overnight.