AMD Agrees To Pay Out $35 Per Chip Over FX Marketing Lawsuit

[Rainbow Dash]

 

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AMD has settled a class-action lawsuit for false advertising of its Bulldozer chips for a total of $12.5 million, of which lawyers could take up to 30%, or $3.63 million. That could leave an $8.87 million pot for Bulldozer owners to split among themselves (provided they file a claim).

 

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Debuted back in 2011, were largely considered a flop due to their high power consumption, inability to hit rated boost speeds, and generally lackluster performance in comparison to Intel's competing Sandy Bridge chips.

 

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They featured four modules that each had two execution cores with shared resources, like a shared front end, cache, and floating point unit, meaning the cores were incapable of operating independently. AMD maintained that the dual-core modules still met the definition of two traditional cores, but some customers disagreed.

 

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That led to a long-running class-action false advertisement lawsuit that was filed in 2015, but AMD settled the lawsuit today for a paltry $12.1 million. The settlement works out to roughly $35 a chip, provided that the number of claimants meets the projections of the court. Unfortunately, the court only predicts that 1/5th of the customers that purchased a Bulldozer chip will come forward to claim.

 

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If you purchased any of the seven Bulldozer models from AMD's website or in California, you are entitled to your slice of the settlement pot.

Source: Tom's Hardware

Source 2: The Register

 

Update (Aug 28, 2019):

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Purchasers entitled for up to $7500 total, have a confirmed purchase(s), and to have purched one of the processors while living in California or from AMD's website. It is noteworthy that people who bought AMD’s FX-8000E series CPUs with reduced power consumption are not eligible to get a reimbursement, and neither are people who purchased AMD’s six-core and quad-core FX-6000 and FX-4000 products.

 

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"AMD is pleased to have reached a settlement of this lawsuit. While we believe the allegations are without merit, we also believe that eliminating the distraction and settling the litigation is in our best interest." - AMD spokesperson to CRN

Source 3: AnandTech

 

PDF of lawsuit agreement:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/08/27/amd-eight-core-settlement.pdf

 

I think this would be a reasonable payout since it has been 8 years since the first Bulldozer CPU came out. The lawsuit itself regarding the marketing of the CPU cores mainly in the FX 8xxx lineup of having 8-cores I believe is kind of a false advertisement; it would be like buying a really nice car that featured air conditioning but you can not use it when the car is moving. I still have my FX-8350 and it runs pretty okay, but performance is not really great for the amount of heat generated and power consumed. With Ryzen, it seems AMD changed their way of marketing without trying to really say anything that would comeback and hit them.

[Rainbow Dash]

Just now, quakeguy said:

Does that include FX-4300 (Vishera) CPUs as well?  Because I have an FX-4300 and FX-8350.  I just made $70 by doing nothing!

They didn't really mention anything about Vishera, but we will have to wait and see if any more news about this comes out. I would be happy too since I still have my FX.

[Drak3]

The only reason to do this is to avoid the likely chance that the courts have no understanding of technology. AMD was in the right prior, and they shouldn't be paying for the misunderstanding of a handful of consumers.

[Rainbow Dash]

Just now, Drak3 said:

The only reason to do this is to avoid the likely chance that the courts have no understanding of technology. AMD was in the right prior, and they shouldn't be paying for the misunderstanding of a handful of consumers.

If I remembered correctly they used the definition of CPU cores from a famous technology institute to argue that AMD was false advertising.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Rainbow Dash said:

If I remembered correctly they used the definition of CPU cores from a famous technology institute to argue that AMD was false advertising.

I'm not finding anything regarding that. Even if I could, that's irrelevant. At the time of Bulldozer's release, the concept of a CPU core was not a super exact definition, and Bulldozer hit all the checkmarks of prior designs that was shared on multicore designs.

[5x5]

Bored people looking for something to be outraged about win again. 

[GOTSpectrum]

Well.... Damn... This to be just seems outrageous, like do people really care that much about 35USD that they would go through all this work and effort, seems more like a witch hunt than anything to me.

 

 

But.... If you find yourself with a multicore processor why not sign up to LTT folding month and put all those 'fake' cores to work for the betterment of man-kind, prizes to be won!

 

 

[Opencircuit74]

Just now, GOTSpectrum said:

Well.... Damn... This to be just seems outrageous, like do people really care that much about 35USD that they would go through all this work and effort, seems more like a witch hunt than anything to me.

 

 

But.... If you find yourself with a multicore processor why not sign up to LTT folding month and put all those 'fake' cores to work for the betterment of man-kind, prizes to be won!

You're a legend.

[GOTSpectrum]

1 minute ago, Opencircuit74 said:

You're a legend.

Every post is an opportunity to plug the folding month my friend

[Guest]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

 

 

Beautiful ad segue. Still cracks me up that my name is the thumbnail.

[Rune]

2 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well.... Damn... This to be just seems outrageous, like do people really care that much about 35USD that they would go through all this work and effort, seems more like a witch hunt than anything to me.

 

 

But.... If you find yourself with a multicore processor why not sign up to LTT folding month and put all those 'fake' cores to work for the betterment of man-kind, prizes to be won!

 

You should write Linus's sponsor segways.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, Den-Fi said:

Beautiful ad segue. Still cracks me up that my name is the thumbnail.

Even the embed knows whos going to be sat on throne by the end of the month! 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Even the embed knows whos going to be sat on throne by the end of the month! 

That's why I provided prizes. I can't win now.

[PopsicleHustler]

I wouldn't argue over getting 35 USD for my old FX8350

[SenKa]

Please update us when there is an actual mechanism to get the kickback, FX-6100 owner here.

[Rainbow Dash]

4 minutes ago, SenKa said:

Please update us when there is an actual mechanism to get the kickback, FX-6100 owner here.

Can't really promise that I will keep this up to date, but it might take them a while to start taking in claims.

[79wjd]

21 minutes ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Well.... Damn... This to be just seems outrageous, like do people really care that much about 35USD that they would go through all this work and effort, seems more like a witch hunt than anything to me.

I think you misunderstand the purpose of class actions; it's rarely ever used for the benefit of the class.

[GOTSpectrum]

Just now, 79wjd said:

I think you misunderstand the purpose of class actions; it's rarely ever used for the benefit of the class.

Oh I'm fully aware its simply a way for lawyers to make bank... Or at least thats the way its seems, we don't really have them over here in Britland for the most part. In fact they didnt exist at all until recently afaik. 

[Sharkyx1]

So stupid to have a lawsuit over this

[SenKa]

25 minutes ago, Rainbow Dash said:

Can't really promise that I will keep this up to date, but it might take them a while to start taking in claims.

Fair enough

[rockking1379]

1 hour ago, Rainbow Dash said:

I still have my FX-8350 and it runs pretty okay

i have an FX-8350 based system still as well at home. and i can honestly say it is disappointing me a lot lately. the system i have in my semi truck is a ryzen 5 2600 and it completely smokes this FX one.

[Arika]

yep. the right thing was done.

[vanished]

I guess the fact they never sold very many has come back as a blessing in that this payout is quite low as a result

[pas008]

website or cali

looks like great deal for amd

[Salv8 (sam)]

AMD financial advisers rn: