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		RachelF 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? Yes, this is the point - software should never be able to physically damage the hardware it is on. If it can, then the hardware is to blame.

mrheosuper 5 months ago [–]

As a FW engineer, my software has released the magic smoke a lot.

account42 5 months ago | [–]

That's why firmware is often considered a separate category from software even though technically it's the same thing. Software is code that expects the hardware to works as specified, firmware is what achieves that.

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