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Thermal Protection

#1

I’ve noticed Hikey 970 gets quite hot when doing crypto operations. Any idea if it has any thermal protection which makes sure board won’t burn?

#2

There are Software and Hardware protection, which throttle the CPU frequency when reaching temperature limits. In worst case, hardware just ‘stops’ the CPU.