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 :P.
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December 28th, 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
December 29th, 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.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
My pc has a proswssor, how I stumbled upon this thread
January 24th, 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.