[Ned Scott]

Any one seen this false advertising of 2 Ghz of Amlogic S905, S905X & S912 tv boxes?
http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/08/28/a...dvertised/

Wow, as in, Amlogic themselves were being deceptive about this. That's pretty messed up.

Huge discovery. I wonder how it took so long to notice since so many companies are using these chips. Poor internal testing when these things have to be dicovered by end users. This affects virtually every media box manufacturer using this generation of Amlogic chips since they all advertised the 2 GHz speeds. Processing claims from unhappy buyers will be very expensive.

To be completely honest, it's a meaningless spec. CPU frequency has never been a measurement of speed or performance, unless comparing two CPUs of the same processor family. Listing the CPU frequency is one of the great lies of tech marketing, and it's been going on for decades. It's about as relevant as knowing how much the CPU/SoC weighs. You can easily have a 1GHz CPU outperform a different 2 or 3GHz CPU. Because this affects all S9xx SoCs there was never anything to compare it to.

IMO, the only reason this is an issue is because it's something Amlogic appears to be lying about, to the point of making the amlogic-provided software lie about what frequency is being used. As others have said, if they lied about this then they could be lying about other things.

Some might say that it matters because they wouldn't have bought a product with an SoC that said "up to 1.5 GHz", but that's foolish. Those numbers never represented performance. You can't even compare the S8xx line to the S9xx line using CPU frequency. That being said, it is still wrong for Amlogic to lie about a spec, even if that spec doesn't have a realistic meaning in this situation. It must be very tempting to cook the numbers like that, because most consumers don't understand and think that higher is always better. It still doesn't make it right.