Thermal Throttling is a technique whereby the frequency of an IC can be automatically adjusted to reduce the amount of heat generated by the IC. Normally, the SSD electronic components operate within the standard temperature range at full speed. But in case of high workloads – running the apps such as computer games, video processing or other data-intensive computing – an excessive heat can be generated by the SSD controller and memory ICs due to a high number of read/write operations and high data output.