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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Understandable but this is not a fuse in common usage of the word, which is used to break a circuit to protect against over-current. Rather it's an part that changes state irreversibly (much like a fuse would) when something happens. There is no implication that it would cut off the power to the CPU in this sense.