Seems like a massive investment in something that isn't their core competency (at all) for a 6-month disruption that hits ~once a generation+. It'd be a lot cheaper to just pay a foundry for reserved capacity, to stockpile a year supply of chips, or engineer cars to have more options for chips.
You mean like having open standards that consumers can plug-and-play their own devices into?
That's absurd. /s
How would auto makers vendor-lock consumers after that?
Have you see infotainment UIs?
Edit: my point was actually how bad they are. Carmakers don't do tech well.
> Have you see infotainment UIs?
> Edit: my point was actually how bad they are. Carmakers don't do tech well.
Android UI and Win 10 are also terrible. And at least Win10 comes from someone who claims a lot of experience in this field (although some claim that they just stole the ideas).
MacOS is pretty awful as well, just differently bad.
It’s all done by pushing a ton of pixels from a CPU that’s probably not older in process than 14nm.
Owning your supply chain is a core competency. It's just that a few decades of relative global stability has allowed us to bury our heads in the sand in exchange for a few short-term optimizations.