Gigacasting 2.0: Tesla reinvents carmaking with quiet breakthrough

The language seems inconsistent. Is it press-forming, or is it die-casting? Or some kind of combination?

If it's die-casting, do they have to temper the material after that? That seems a pretty impressive operation and a nifty bit of metallurgy.

(I'm not an engineer, so I may be using the terms inconsistently myself. But I'd appreciate it if somebody who was an engineer could clarify that for me.)

And sometimes it cracks https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scar...