Intel Corporation

Patrick Douglas James

Son H Lam

Pronay Dutta

Jerrod Peterson

Christopher J Lake

Ruander Cardenas

Paul D Crutcher

Evan Piotr Kuklinski

Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to enable an active loading mechanism. The electronic device can include a printed circuit board, a heat source located on the printed circuit board, and an active loading mechanism secured to the printed circuit board. The active loading mechanism is over the heat source and includes shape memory material. When the shape memory material is not activated, the active loading mechanism applies a first load on the heat source and when the shape memory material is activated, the active loading mechanism applies a second load on the heat source.

Activate loading mechanism

A power button override allows a persistent memory enabled platform to preserve data in persistent memory before initiating shutdown in a manner that is transparent to the user. The power button override prevents shutdown until all of the volatile cache and any other data in the platform has been flushed to persistent memory.

Power button override for persistent memory enabled platforms

A method and apparatus for protecting a low voltage processor inserted in a high voltage processor connector includes a circuit that determines whether power can be safely asserted to the connector, or whether power should be disabled due to a non-compliant processor. A method enables power to the connector upon a determination that a compliant processor, a termination card, or an empty connector is present.

Preventing damaging of low voltage processor in high voltage system

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Beaverton, OR, United States of America

Patrick Douglas James