What I'm trying to say is (pure conjecture):
1) say, a 1000 of Derbauers subs bough the card and 40 of them responded that they experienced 110C
2) AMD and partners shipped hundreds of thousands of reference models.
3) It's not completely outside of reason at this point to say that it could be a few thousand bad cards total out there
The stat we're missing really is how many of his subs that have the card have no issues, he should have included it. Still, AMD should just replace the cards, even if 110C is within spec the "faulty" still spin up the fans harder than the "normal" ones and select few even throttle. Premium service for premium products. Same goes for Nvidia, I'm not sure if they got around to replacing the burnt 4090s.