Dell didn't intentionally create that issue. They simply should have been performing better HALT to ensure they had coverage for bad caps. That's the qa escape.

Dell didn't intentionally create that issue. They simply should have been performing better HALT to ensure they had coverage for bad caps. That's the qa escape. In this case, there is no way to test for this as ftdi doesn't provide any way to do so. They simply break stuff after the fact. The only way to prevent this from happening is to not use ftdi branded parts.