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Guru3D.com » News » AMD faces Lawsuit over Core Count on Bulldozer

AMD faces Lawsuit over Core Count on Bulldozer

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/06/2015 12:28 PM | source: | 133 comment(s)
AMD faces Lawsuit over Core Count on Bulldozer

AMD faces a lawsuit over the core count on Bulldozer processors, reports legalnewsline.com In claiming that its Bulldozer CPU had “8-cores”. The suit alleges AMD built the Bulldozer processors by stripping away components from two cores and combining what was left to make a single “module.” In doing so, however, the cores no longer work independently. 

As legalnewsline.com describes: AMD allegedly tricked consumers into buying its Bulldozer processors by overstating the number of cores contained in these chips.

Tony Dickey, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, filed a class-action lawsuit on Oct. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division against Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) for alleged violations of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, California’s Unfair Competition Law, false advertising, fraud, breach of express warrant, negligent misrepresentation and unjust enrichment.

As a result, Dickey argues that AMD’s Bulldozer CPUs suffer from material performance degradation, and cannot perform eight instructions simultaneously and independently as claimed. He alleges that average consumers in the market for computer CPUs lack the requisite technical expertise to understand the design of AMD's processors and trust the company to convey accurate specifications regarding its CPUs. Because AMD did not convey accurate specifications, Dickey argues that tens of thousands of consumers have been misled into buying Bulldozer CPUs that cannot perform the way a true eight-core CPU would.

Dickey is suing 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. He is represented by Samuel M. Lasser from Edelson PC in San Francisco, California; and Rafey S. Balabanian, Alexander T.H. Nguyen and Amir C. Missaghi from Edelson PC in Chicago, Illinois.



U.S. District Court For the Northern District of California, San Jose Division Case number 5:15-cv-04922-PSG

Via Legalnewsline.com



AMD faces Lawsuit over Core Count on Bulldozer




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Illnino
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#5184181 Posted on: 11/06/2015 12:36 PM
Oh dear, could be that straw.......

isidore
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#5184184 Posted on: 11/06/2015 12:39 PM
well i remember pretty clear that at the launch of this cpu's, you, Hilbert, presented some info on this and said something about 7,5 CPU or something like that.
Also how can this lawsuit stand when the performance of the CPU's drastically depends on how a application uses them, and as far as i know amd's 8 core cpu's work as they should in multi threaded apps and use the cores properly.

or maybe i'm missing something, anyway the suit it's pretty shady.

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#5184186 Posted on: 11/06/2015 12:39 PM
quick, post those gtx970 3.5gb articles to protect AMD.

fantaskarsef
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#5184188 Posted on: 11/06/2015 12:47 PM
quick, post those gtx970 3.5gb articles to protect AMD.


This is like saying bloody mary for the first time. :rolleyes:

AlmondMan
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#5184192 Posted on: 11/06/2015 12:52 PM
**** you, Tony Dickey.

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