Yes, it's not cool.
Obviously those manufacturers have not taken it upon themselves to stop making fakes. And Alibaba, Ebay, Amazon et. al. aren't preventing their distribution. They and Intel should be working more effectively to prevent it. I think Intel can help with more information so we can better identify fakes and can avoid putting money in the hands of those vendors who try to trick consumers into buying the fakes. Also, if there is a market for cards that are non-reference or made by others then it should be established and legitimized. As of now all those parties mentioned are making money somewhere in that chain at the consumer's expense. I would like to know if and what low-cost alternative implementations are OK as long as they are not mis-represented. Some them are clearly designed to mis-represent themselves and others seem to potentially be legitimate alternatives. We can and should, with information and intent, avoid buying the fakes that are usable and demand that they either be legitimate non-reference or alternative implementations.
Can you explain?
stopping is kind of hard.
do you ever hear about ghost factory?
they take all rejected parts and combined with low quality/clone active parts to became "faked" one
or they recycle active components and reuse to be a new one.
stamping is easy, erase/grind and relabel
this is the same identical plague with other fakes. I believe this can be resolved when Chinese govermenent involve to minimize counterfeit. Alas... never happens as today, and we need China to make lower cost electronic products.
the only chinese brand aftermarket i350 ->WinYao
WYI350-T4 Quad Port RJ45 Gigabit Network Card
they did not erase and relabel the marking. theur active componets are cheaps/low quality/clone.
