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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: 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?

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