Actually no, it needs to say the name properly to be counterfeit. (i.e. you have to claim to actually be the company, not merely imitate their goods).

Messing up the name makes it a knockoff. Basically if you can easily tell by looking who really made it then it's not counterfeit.

And either way it's certainly not "pirate" or "bandit".

I think the problem is that they don't own or have a license for the patents.

If that were the case, then they would sue MediaTek.

Unlike the small manufacturers MediaTek is easy to find and it's a pretty large company.

Near-matches suffice for trademark infringement, if not straight-up counterfeiting. I am unsure as to which one piracy refers to.