AMD settles Bulldozer class-action suit that could pay out up to $35 per chip - murphycalat1937

If you bought an AMD "Bulldozer" CPU and didn't quite agree with AMD that it was an actual 8-core chip, congratulations: A justice has agreed with you, and you may make up eligible for a small routine of compensation as a result.

As originally rumored byThe Registry, AMD has agreed to pay adequate $35 per chip for those WHO bought an FX-8120, FX-8150, FX-8320, FX-8350, FX-8370, FX-9370, or FX-9590, every bit a result of a settlement of a course of instruction-accomplish suit brought in 2015. Unfortunately, the settlement hasn't affected ancient the present where some sides publish details of how to obtain compensation. (You john learn our original AMD Bulldozer survey, Here.)

The litigants to begin with filed suit because they disagreed with AMD's claims that its quaternity Processor modules, each with a pair of cores inside them, combined to make up an Eight-core chip. The defendants argued that because the CPU cores shared resources and a single afloat-indicate unit, the affected chips weren't an eight-core carve all. After four years of backward-and-forth in the courts, AMD agreed to steady down in central for a release from altogether prox claims.

The total compensation is rightful $12.1 million, nevertheless, which will need to be rent 'tween the litigants and the members of the class—basically, whatever customer who bought a Bulldozer chip and can attest to it. The settlement assumes that 20 percent of elocutionary customers will actually apply for the small town bung. Put other way, the pot of money doesn't guarantee $35 per buffalo chip; IT merely makes some guesses as to how many people will apply for compensation, and divides the money accordingly.

The Read aright refers back to the Equifax data breach, where the $125 in per-customer "compensation" apace shrank once all of the affected customers—pretty much everybody?—began applying for their unbiased share. IT's hard to suppose whether the same thing will happen here, too.

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