I'm going to be charitable and make a wild guess. There's probably some software section that checks a memory mapped region for a value from thermometers and t

I'm going to be charitable and make a wild guess. There's probably some software section that checks a memory mapped region for a value from thermometers and throttles as necessary. It doesn't sound too difficult to make a mistake related to testing that region. If I were an evil overlord / dictator trying to follow one or more of the lists of things to do / not do... a dedicated hardware circuit for thermal overprotection would be among the must have items for any non-trivial device. Trivial devices being things that could fail with no risks, even from their worst failure mode. http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html // https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlordList