The parent commenter never used or even implied “stealing” nor “innovation” anywhere in their comment. I dunno where you got your strawman from.

there is no innovation here. they combined tape with SSD. What's new or even hard about that? How about we add NVME to tape? Is that innovation? Next you'll tell me they added a propeller to a jet plane and call it innovation. This is basic caching and that concept has been around for ages used with hard drives, CPUs, networking. https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/caching-writes-to-lto-tape... oh look, people talking about caching with ssd! what an innovation!

I like how this is forcing china to actually innovate in the semis area instead of a tech lag. It’s a good thing