AMD can’t spell!

I was looking through some status information on my web host, and I found out that doesn’t have a processor. No, instead, it has a AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor… How could something like this slip through AMD’s QA?
Even funnier was a friend telling me that their server had an AMD Athlon(tm) Proswssor .

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Peter Nic says:

Thursday, 28th December 2006 at 11:04 AM

The spelling error is not AMD’s — the name of the CPU is re-set by the motherboard BIOS. The two spelling errors are apparently defects in the BIOS of the computers you are seeing this in. AMD CPUs come with a very generic name in their CPUID; AMD requires the BIOS/OS to set the more specific name based on a number of factors. I think those are bugs/pranks, have not heard of problems with those BIOS/motherboards otherwise. (Funny, granted

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Daniel15 says:

Friday, 29th December 2006 at 5:27 PM

Thanks for the clarification, Peter Nic Even if it is a BIOS problem, the BIOS manufacturer should have picked it up. It is definately present on a number of systems. A Google search for “AMD Athlon(tm) Prosussor” has 612 results, and “AMD Athlon(tm) Proswssor” has 286 results

I encountered this on a dedicated server from Layered Technologies, by the way.

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anonymous says:

Wednesday, 23rd January 2008 at 4:14 PM

My pc has a proswssor, how I stumbled upon this thread

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Amd says:

Thursday, 24th January 2008 at 12:32 PM

I searched for \’Amd Athlon Xp Processor\’ at Google and found your post named \’’t spell! at Daniel15’s Blog\’ in search results. Quite interesting to read.

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elbbit says:

Sunday, 4th October 2009 at 4:12 PM

elbbit@moon ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) proswssor
elbbit@moon ~ $

Me too.

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