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The license is an open-loop, predetermined safe operating area for AVX. The other limits, like RAPL and temperature, are closed-loop control systems. I think we can imagine that the static SOA exists for all these parts, but in the newer part it's so large that it doesn't tread much on the territory of the closed-loop systems. Eventually the SOA will be large enough to be irrelevant in practice.


This is an excellent description. May I use, with credit, part of this text, perhaps edited or paraphrased, as a clarifier in the blog post?


Sure, feel free. I certainly don't need to be credited for the idea that semiconductors have limits.


Well yes, but you gave a good bit more detail than "that semiconductors have limits" ;).




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