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AMD agrees to cough up $35-a-chip payout over eight-core Bulldozer advertising fiasco

the spectacularly refined chap

Re: Spin and bullcrap

Core as in ALU, so essentially integer math and logic.

But that would mess up the counting since cores have had multiple integer units going back as far as the original Pentium. You wouldn't call that a dual core processor. I prefer the simultaneous thread metric proposed earlier.

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