No. The device has no role in thermal management or CPU throttling. Disabling it only stops power management calls to non-existent hardware.

: The vendor prefix assigned to National Semiconductor , the original manufacturer of the integrated circuit chip.

A yellow triangle next to "ACPI NSC6001" indicates the driver is missing, corrupted, or Windows assigned a generic driver that doesn't work.

Check and run the installer. Method 3: Disable the Infrared Port in the BIOS/UEFI

A quick Google search for "ACPI NSC6001 driver" will lead you to sketchy driver download sites offering nsc6001.sys or acpi_nsc6001.inf .