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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 zugedneb on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:51PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Saturday November 07 2015, @06:51PM (#260053)

    I can find valid reasons...

    There are none.
    Nobody working with consumer products asks a compiler to do work for a specific _brand_.
    They want to compile to a specific set of _instructions_.

    It is not the job of the compiler writer to be paranoid about some vendor not implementing the instruction set correctly. The job is to make the compiler produce as requested.

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