AMD is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has deliberately overstating the number of CPU cores in its Bulldozer processors.
According to Tony Dickey, AMD has merged each two Bulldozer cores together into a single-functioning "module" after stripping key components off them. The plaintiff reasons that: since the two cores can't operate independently in this design, the Bulldozer processor is unable to perform eight instructions "simultaneously and independently" which makes it a quad-core CPU, not an octa-core one.
Dickey noted that the average consumers in the market for computer CPUs lack the required technical expertise to understand the intricacies of the Bulldozer CPU architecture and thus they trust AMD to convey accurate specifications.
Dickey is suing AMD for statutory and punitive damages, litigation expenses, pre- and post-judgment interest, as well as other injunctive and declaratory relief as is deemed reasonable.
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