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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:51AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <reversethis-{moc ... {8691tsaebssab}> on Sunday November 08 2015, @12:51AM (#260170) Journal

    Here is a Phoronix review using Ubuntu [phoronix.com] and they liked it, and that is a year old, the drivers are even better now. AMD has been paying for extra FOSS devs to support their APUs and most of them run quite nice now, and you can score one of these chips just crazy cheap, we're talking $30 for the dual core Sempron and $54 for the top of the line Athlon 5350. If you want to build a really cheap HTPC that's Linux friendly? Well here ya go. I've been using them at the shop with both windows 8 (frankly the only place windows 8 works is as a 10 foot UI) and OpenELEC (Linux based XBMC/Kodi OS) and they seem to play quite nicely with both. I've also had customers use them as ULP office boxes and they are VERY happy with the performance, for all your basic tasks like web surfing, office work, watching vids? Its smooth and easy and is so low power its practically silent.

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