PCB designer here...
When I look at the side by side boards I see something that was shared. No one would spend so much time to accidentally make a board look that similar. It would take much more effort than just designing from scratch.
When we see similar boards we count the things that are the same in terms such as "a few", not the ones that are different.
If they were designed independently someone would have had to go to a lot of trouble to make them so similar.
I've had PCBs copied and reproduced. This doesn't look like that. This looks like someone had access to inno designs and made slight modifications, and routed the modifications. This is far different than the car examples, or both boards are green memes that people have been posting on twitter. The examples of both intel based motherboards having the same chip-sets just don't apply.
The level that boards are identical is just embarrassing.
For a couple grand they could have reverse engineered the PCB, turned it into a schematic, made their own layout, and at least made it look like they were trying not to copy someone. There are lots of contractors who perform this service in China. Of course the US has them too, but they are more expensive and typically prefer to do it on designs a company owns but lost to obsolesce.
Occam's razor guys...
When I look at the side by side boards I see something that was shared. No one would spend so much time to accidentally make a board look that similar. It would take much more effort than just designing from scratch.
When we see similar boards we count the things that are the same in terms such as "a few", not the ones that are different.
If they were designed independently someone would have had to go to a lot of trouble to make them so similar.I've had PCBs copied and reproduced. This doesn't look like that. This looks like someone had access to inno designs and made slight modifications, and routed the modifications. This is far different than the car examples, or both boards are green memes that people have been posting on twitter. The examples of both intel based motherboards having the same chip-sets just don't apply.
The level that boards are identical is just embarrassing.
For a couple grand they could have reverse engineered the PCB, turned it into a schematic, made their own layout, and at least made it look like they were trying not to copy someone. There are lots of contractors who perform this service in China. Of course the US has them too, but they are more expensive and typically prefer to do it on designs a company owns but lost to obsolesce.
Occam's razor guys...