"Some might still argue that the FX-8350 is an 8 core CPU, but it’s not, and it’s certainly not according to the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act."
I don't care what some court says about tech, especially in some absurd civil case in a country where you can legally sue ANYBODY for ANYTHING. The CPU core was defined as an integer computing core since the original Intel 4004. According to the "California Consumers Legal Remedies Act", Intel, AMD, Motorola, Texas Instruments (Cyrix), SPARC, IBM and VIA could ALL be sued for selling CPUs that didn't have FPUs attached. The FPU isn't even x86 architecture, it's x87 architecture and used to be (pre-486DX) sold separately as a "math co-processor" for floating-point operations.
Steve, I'm surprised at you that you'd let some court in another country make you ignore all the knowledge that you have about CPUs. Since when are lawsuits in the USA determined by who is right as opposed to "who just doesn't want to deal with it anymore"?
No court in some US state is going to define what a CPU core is for me when I've known damn well what a CPU core is for more than 20 years before that frivolous lawsuit case was brought forward. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Intel had something to do with it.