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AMD Sued by Customer Over Misrepresentation of "Multicore"

posted by janrinok on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the 8=4 dept.

zugedneb writes:

In 2011 AMD released the Bulldozer architecture, with a somewhat untraditional implementation of the "multicore" technology. Now, 4 years later, they are sued for false advertising, fraud and other "criminal activities". From TFA:

In claiming that its new Bulldozer CPU had "8-cores," which means it can perform eight calculations simultaneously, AMD allegedly tricked consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in the chips. Dickey alleges the Bulldozer chips functionally have only four cores—not eight, as advertised.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:32AM (#259797)

    Really?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:34AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:34AM (#259798) Journal

    Well, yes - costumers would presumably work on Broadway, or in Hollywood. And, they probably use computers. So - a costumer has sued AMD because he could only design 4 costumes on his computer, instead of the 8 he expected.

    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:39PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:39PM (#259993) Journal

      costumers would presumably work on Broadway, or in Hollywood.

      Someone used this same "customer"/"costumer" misspelling in a solution to this riddle [stackexchange.com]. But what does it say about me that I see "Broadway" and "Hollywood" and immediately think of codenames for the chipset in the Wii game console?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @05:44AM (#259833)
    You need to say it with one of those accents... The sort that goes well with "Nice business you've got there...".