The answer is: Yes. It would be nice to have a chip that works or doesn't work at all. But there's a large amount that mostly works until it doesn't someday, s

The answer is: Yes. It would be nice to have a chip that works or doesn't work at all. But there's a large amount that mostly works until it doesn't someday, somewhere and that can make millions of expensive electronics completely useless because some fake $0.02 chip died, plus the aftermath of who's at fault is another can of worms.