You’re intentionally muddying the waters with meaningless philosophy. Even the law makes the difference between “knowingly” (with knowledge, intention, premeditation) and “mistake”. They didn’t knowingly break the CPU but they knowingly launched it despite their own internal findings, and knowingly blamed others when this came out.

But here you are claiming that the company must deserve the benefit of the doubt on their intent.

No, “knowingly” is most definitely not “meaningless”. And anyone who’s not naive or bad intentioned should make that difference and take note. Every time a company gets away with it because an army of philosophers washes away any guilt or plays it down with meaningless distinctions it becomes one more reason to do it again. Knowingly.

I don't think they've clarified which exact models of which serial number ranges are affected with oxidation to this day. It should've been a recall.