And charging more for the card. I hope Nvidia removes the licences from those third-party manufacturers that are scamming the public!
It is not the third parties fault. They are using designs sanctioned by Nvidia. They were also given very little time to prepare their implementations so not enough time to fully test their offerings. Nvidia demands that the 3rd party makers follow Nvidia's designs for the reference card. They are not allowed to change the components that Nvidia says is ok. Later when special cards are made the 3rd can use their own designs, even then it needs Nvidia's approval. Only then can you accuse the 3rd party makers of using designs and component choices that do not work.
Many of the me too channels on youtube used the term POSCAP to describe the believed faulty component. POSCAPS are probably the easiest capacitors to identify. None of the cards that anyone has shown are using POSCAPS. (The P is POSCAP stands for Panasonic, a high quality Japanese suppliers of electronic components.
The better streams I have seen on youtube on this subject are Actually Hardcore Overclocking and Pauls Hardware. Buildzoid who talks like someone who understand electronics and Paul did testing and showed the fault on Nvidias own Founders Edition card (Not a reference design) by overclocking. Some of the other testing site have seen faults but do not have enough data to comment.
Zotac claim only reviwers have their marginal cards and are now making the card with the same capacitor array used on Nvidia Founders edition card.
The real lesson here is that Nvidia, afraid of the AMD competition, have pushed their design right to the limits and even small changes in the supporting structure can lead to bad outcomes.
Lets see what AMD do. There are all sorts of ignorant claims swirling around from useless to on par with the 3090. AMD do have the advantage of splitting their compute cards (CDNA) from their gaming graphics cards (RDNA). Nvidia cards are loaded up with TENSOR cores and other stuff for AI and other compute applications. I suspect they push DLSS to justify this non core silicon. The better TVs with low power ARM chips manage upscaling without the need for high power AI.