‘Fake’ in this instance isn’t manufacturer B illegitimately cloning manufacturer A’s parts. It’s basically a failure of QA/QC processes being papered over. The

‘Fake’ in this instance isn’t manufacturer B illegitimately cloning manufacturer A’s parts. It’s basically a failure of QA/QC processes being papered over. The computing equivalent would be where how CPUs which fail QA are binned to lower spec (e.g. using 6 cores not 8, or underclocked), except in this instance it’s then still sold as the top-end chip even if it’s unstable and crashes under load sometimes.