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Old AMD Windows chipset driver bug that quietly degrades SSDs now back on GPUs

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What happened

A major AMD driver problem has returned which silently wears down SSDs, this time via GPU (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI) drivers, and poses unexpected risk to storage devices. There are a couple of working fixes. AMD is an electrical and semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, founded in 1969, and its products and services include graphics processing units and chipsets.

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