[topkekz]

When AMD says 8 cores, it's actually 8 ALUs and 4 SIMDs/FPUs.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/12/amd-fx-8150...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/amd_sued_cores/

Note that they changed that with ZEN

http://wccftech.com/amd-one-fpu-per-core-design-zen-processo...

[powercf]

That case seems* to have been dismissed. My (very brief) reading of it is that there is no industry-standard definition of what a "core" is (other than possibly being able to simultaneously execute), and what can or cannot be shared among cores. I see no issue with AMD calling a module of two integer units and one floating point unit "two cores"

* http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020160408M22/DICKE....