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The investigations required highly demanding supercomputer simulations that consumed millions of CPU hours on Frankfurt's "Goethe" supercomputer and Stuttgart's "Hawk."

Additionally, it surpassed the core CPU and arithmetic chip by 2,186 times.

"Not every Nvidia GPU has to be sold with an Arm CPU, they just happen to offer a superchip that combines the two," said Rolf Bulk, an analyst at New Street Research.

By tampering with the voltage supply to the processor, the students were able to trick the car’s CPU into accepting manipulated code and enable the blocked features.

Around two million CPU hours later, the simulations revealed unique structures and compositions.