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How do these modern power buttons on devices work

In simple devices you might have a microcontroller in low-power mode which wakes up (generating the enable signals for other devices) when the button is pressed, then goes back to sleep when the button … This after considering debouncing, the fact that the user might press the button many times in a row etc... …
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