Skip to main content The Verge logo. The Verge homepage The Verge homepage The Verge logo. / Tech / Reviews / Science / Entertainment / More Menu The Verge logo. Menu Tech / Desktops / Gadgets / By Chaim Gartenberg Aug 28, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC | AMD has agreed to a $12.1 million settlement in a class action lawsuit for some customers who bought its FX-8000 / 9000 CPUs built on its 2011 Bulldozer architecture, ending a years-long dispute that claimed AMD falsely advertised the chips as eight-core processors when they in fact only possessed half that number, via The Register . According to the lawsuit, the Bulldozer-based chips weren’t truly multicore processors to the extent that AMD claimed. AMD advertised the CPUs as eight-core chips, but each chip only had four “dual-core modules” with separate execution units; other resources like cache and a single floating point unit (FPU) were sh...