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I was on the receiving end of numerous support cases caused by what has to be on the sub-dollar cent savings (per single sku) region when multiple mainboard manufacturers chose to use capacitors with slightly worse tolerances all of a sudden (~25 years ago).

So if the whole process of spec'ing and validating the quality of sourced materials was within their action space, ofc they'd choose (potential) fault-tolerance over price, as it was mission critical.

So there might be a reason why we refer to it today as space race and not race to the bottom.