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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @04:27AM (#259817)

    I'm drunk and finding this hilarious.

    Everyone knows Bulldozer is worth half the cores and had known for years.