Today's interest: just how does a modern PC motherboard implement soft ATX power control? Presumably the main CPU isn't running all the time, although parts of the motherboard are powered. Is there a separate little always-on SOC that implements the logic? Something more clever?
The information is probably somewhere on the Internet but my search luck on this is 'lol no', probably since I don't know the right technical terms to look for.
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