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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: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:14PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Saturday November 07 2015, @03:14PM (#259977) Journal

    An Atom N450 CPU has 1 core and 2 threads in a similar setup, branded "Hyper-Threading Technology" by Intel. The monitoring programs shipped with Xubuntu (top, Xfce4 Task Manager, and Xfce4 CPU Graph Plugin) see it as two cores.

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