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Funfact: it is not invention by Tesla and it is not that other OEM are copying. It is an Italian company, that provides that equipment.

It would be like, TSMC would branding a new technology while ASML is actually doing the shit.

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Tesla does this with everything about their cars that they don't invent. The biggest example to me was the Panasonic battery cells (and battery production line) that Tesla sold for years as their own innovation.

That's a pretty decent analogy. However, there are innovations that are correctly ascribed to TSMC (and in this case, Tesla) for their use of those new tools. Often new innovations are a combination of clever tooling and a clever way of using those tools.

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