Lawsuit alleges AMD misled buyers on Bulldozer core count
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AMD's Bulldozer CPU architecture has had a troubled history. Thanks to its unusual design, the company's top-end CPUs had difficulty competing with Intel's latest and greatest-and its troubles may not be over yet. Legal News Wire reports that a class-action lawsuit has been filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California's San Jose division, alleging that AMD falsely advertised those CPUs as having more cores than they actually do.
The heart of the matter is the Bulldozer architecture itself. Bulldozer modules combine two integer cores with a single floating-point unit and a shared L2 cache. Multiple modules are then combined to form the CPU. According to Tony Dickey, who filed the ...