@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoAMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabledwww.extremetech.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1182
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish39•1 year agoFuses in this sense are write-once data. Once the fuse is burnt, only physical repair could revert the change. These are used as one-way-doors (like the Nintendo Switch firmware upgrade fuses https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Fuses#Anti-downgrade) or tripwires (like Samsung Knox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox#e-Fuse)
Fuses in this sense are write-once data. Once the fuse is burnt, only physical repair could revert the change. These are used as one-way-doors (like the Nintendo Switch firmware upgrade fuses https://switchbrew.org/wiki/Fuses#Anti-downgrade) or tripwires (like Samsung Knox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox#e-Fuse)