The point being that they knowingly went down the e-fuse route to make sure nobody could unlock it later. They probably learnt their lesson in the early 2000s,

The point being that they knowingly went down the e-fuse route to make sure nobody could unlock it later. They probably learnt their lesson in the early 2000s, when users could do a bit of soldering and apply a patch to unlock more performance on cards that had been artificially throttled.