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Serious question: might we be entering - with all the warming going on, could we be entering a period where we might be falling outside of the functional heat envelope for (most) chips?
I wonder if AMD systems were affected, too. Also, Intel still dominates the prebuilt-computer market, and they tend to have less robust cooling solutions than custom-built computers.

Meanwhile, anything with an Apple A-series processor needs to be in the shade, if it's over 100 °F outside. There's a company that makes an electronic flight book that only works on Apple A-series devices, and in many parts of the world, it's unusable in the summer in airplanes with bubble canopies.