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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"fuse" implies that the CPU will stop working

It's just an electronic component, like resistors and transistors. Samsung has something similar in their phones called Knox.