Thoughts on software-defined silicon

>enable features without license would become actively harmful: enabling all features simultaneously would just fry the chip and it would be pretty hard to prove in warranty service that this happened because of customer irresponsibility, not because of customer's misuse.

Surely this case could be handled in hardware by only accepting configurations enabling at most any 2 of features A, B, C (or whatever other thermal / power constraints exist). I don't see why this would require a license based system to be safe