Eli5 Why does heat slow down electronics?

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Eli5 Why does heat slow down electronics?

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It doesn’t or at least not directly, it’s electronics that are intentionally designed to slow down as they heat up, because CPUs can generate a lot of heat, and if you don’t cool them down enough, they can overheat and fail, which is rather undesirable

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