{"id":15697,"date":"2015-11-08T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2015-11-08T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T04:35:12","slug":"amd-lawsuit-over-false-bulldozer-chip-marketing-is-bogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15697","title":{"rendered":"AMD lawsuit over false Bulldozer chip marketing is bogus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>AMD is facing a lawsuit over claims that it misrepresented the core counts of its eight-core Bulldozer products, but the lawsuit&#8217;s technical merit seems extremely weak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/217672-analysis-amd-lawsuit-over-false-bulldozer-chip-marketing-is-without-merit\">AMD lawsuit over false Bulldozer chip marketing is bogus | ExtremeTech<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">This lawsuit essentially asks a court to define what a core is and how companies should count them. As annoying as it is to see vendors occasionally abuse core counts in the name of dubious marketing strategies, asking a courtroom to make declarations about relative performance between companies is a cure far worse than the disease. From big iron enterprise markets to mobile devices, companies deploy vastly different architectures to solve different types of problems. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD is facing a lawsuit over claims that it misrepresented the core counts of its eight-core Bulldozer products, but the lawsuit&#8217;s technical merit seems extremely weak. Source: AMD lawsuit over false Bulldozer chip marketing is bogus | ExtremeTech This lawsuit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15697\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[480,114,875,332],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-amd","tag-computer-architecture","tag-litigation","tag-parallel-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}