AMD sued over allegedly misleading Bulldozer core count

bikramjitkar

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AMD sued over allegedly misleading Bulldozer core count | Ars Technica UK

A class action lawsuit has been filed against chip-maker AMD for allegedly tricking consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in the chips. The suit claims that while Bulldozer was advertised as having eight cores, functionally it actually only had four.

AMD's multi-core Bulldozer chips use a unique design that combines the functions of what would normally be two discrete cores into a single package, which the company calls a module. Each module is identified as two separate cores in Windows, but the cores share a single floating point unit and instruction and execution resources. This is different from Intel's cores, which feature independent FPUs.

The suit claims that Bulldozer's design means its cores cannot work independently, and as a result, cannot perform eight instructions simultaneously and independently. This, the claim continues, results in performance degradation, and average consumers in the market for a CPU lack the technical expertise to understand the design of AMD's processors and trust the company to give accurate specifications regarding its CPUs.

Because AMD did not convey accurate specifications, the suit argues that tens of thousands of consumers were misled into buying a Bulldozer CPU that cannot perform in the same way as a true 8-core CPU. Allegedly, this would mean AMD violated the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law, and was guilty of false advertising, fraud, breach of express warranty, negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment.

AMD is being sued for damages, including statutory and punitive damages, litigation expenses, pre- and post-judgment interest, as well as other injunctive and declaratory relief as is deemed reasonable.

Seriously? This is like punching holes in the Titanic. :(
 

chimera201

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AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims

Finally it happened :lol:

AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims | KitGuru
 

seamon

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Re: AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims

AMD - just die already.
 
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Deleted member 118788

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Re: AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims

Uneducated American Jury as always.
 

Vyom

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But who filed the complain? There's no mention of Intel. Is there any other regulatory monitoring such technical stuff?
Also, if people buy a processor without first reading benchmarks, is it really AMD's fault?
 

tkin

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But who filed the complain? There's no mention of Intel. Is there any other regulatory monitoring such technical stuff?
Also, if people buy a processor without first reading benchmarks, is it really AMD's fault?
Things do not work like that in real world, just because you and I know about it doesn't mean everyone will. Think about medical practice, one can sue the doctor or the hospital if they give inaccurate information (in USA of course), what if the doctors tell the person that they should have read the details of the procedure from internet?
 
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Re: AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims

what's with hating AMD anyway?

He is trying his hard to get into Nvidia as always. Nothing new here.
 

Nerevarine

Incarnate
Re: AMD faces class action lawsuit over Bulldozer core count claims

Is amd really that bad?

No, they were always priced competitively, you dont have to pay a premium to get high end computing power in case of AMD chips (Non gaming uses as well as gaming)


if amd dies,nvidia and intel will have monopoly in their respective sectors and it will turn into a shitstorm, no competition = any price these two companies can set and no one can do any **** to them
 
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