Randomly checking Mozilla Thunderbird before I went to bed last night, I got this very strange, serious-looking email in my spam folder that showed up at 9:28am yesterday morning about a Class Action lawsuit against AMD CPU’s, and I “may be a Class Member”.
It mentions people that have purchased the AMD FX-8120, 8150, 8320, 8350, 3370, 9370, and the 9590 are entitled to compensation. The lawsuit is about AMD misrepresenting the number of cores of these CPUs to customers. AMD denies all claims they “violated the
law”, but have settled “to avoid the uncertainties and expenses associated with the case.”
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I did a quick Google search just to see if this ‘lawsuit’ is actually legit, and sure enough it
is, and has been going on for months (since the start of the year). Why now am I being informed of this…? Who knows. Digging deeper (using a Linus Tech Tips post), I began to see a trend that this lawsuit is stupid, with the ones that filed the lawsuit not knowing what a physical core is on a CPU.
And I agree with them. When I had the 9590, I saw 8 cores (as advertised). So, what the fuck. Seems like a desperate attempt by Intel fanboys to make AMD look bad.
Going back to the email, keep reading and saw a section of how I would be able to receive payment of up to $300 per CPU of the settlement. It says I “must submit a timely and properly completed Claim Form no later than January 3, 2019“…
You send me an email saying I can get money, yet.. your claim date is… January, of this year.
I don’t even. And you know, that’s probably why it’s in my Spam folder. *deletes it* Goodbye.
EDIT (10/30/19): If ghosts exist, this might be one of them… as in, the ghost of the email I deleted 4 days ago (but in a much smaller form). Reading it, I’m now starting to see why it took this long for me to be informed. This has been going on since the start of the year, but it was never settled by AMD until October 25th.
On the back of it, it seems they made a huge typo in the former email. Seems I now have until January 3rd, 2020 to make a claim (with the form also on the back).
EDIT (11/1/19): A slightly revised version of the email arrived in my inbox this morning. It states at the top: “The deadline to file your claim in this matter is January 3, 2020. The Notice previously emailed to you, erroneously stated the deadline was January 3, 2019.”
In other words: “We’re sorry, we weren’t paying attention and accidentally put today’s year instead of next year, causing a HUGE typo. Thanks to the ones who corrected our mistake.”
They clearly are going to keep sending me notices until A: once January 3rd 2020 gets here, B: I do what they say and have to go through hell to tell them “I’m not interested in this joke of a lawsuit. AMD has done nothing wrong here.” Or C: Fill out the paperwork to get the money for the 9590.
I’ll likely be doing either A or B, because I personally haven’t seen any proof of this claim that AMD has lied about the number of cores for the affected CPUs mentioned in the lawsuit. I’m also going to be asking Zagro (knowing he owns one of the CPUs listed in the lawsuit), see if he has gotten these same messages (and what he did about him).