AMD Subpoenaes Intel Lawyers
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Advanced Micro Devices' allegations that Intel execs lost documents relating to its antitrust case against the chipmaker have been hashed out by the companies' respective lawyers in a telephone meeting with court Special Master Vincent Poppiti.
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In connection with what the two companies are only describing today as an investigation into potential antitrust violations, graphics processor producer nVidia and AMD â- the new parent of processor company ATI â- announced they have received subpoenas from the US Dept. of Justice.
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The case against Intel's right to pay its channel clients for exclusivity has been a matter for a civil court. But if the New York Attorney General finds what he's looking for, the company could find the case against it both upgraded and multithreaded.
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(InfoWorld) - E-mail messages from some of Intel's most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices, according to a court transcript released by AMD. IntelÂ revealed last weekÂ that some internal e-mails that may be important to the case were missing as a result of errors. The transcript, from a status conference on March 7, indicates that Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and President and CEO Paul Otellini were among those not in compliance with the company's document retention policies. The executives apparently deleted the e-mail messages, including some to Intel's largest customers, because they were under the false impression that Intel was automatically backing up their e-mail, according to the transcript. "But the last category that I am very worried about is the senior management -- and I'm talking executive level Barrett and Otellini," said AMD attorney Linda Smith, according to the transcript. "This is the absolute top level. And these are the folks that, even if there's only a two-, three-, four-month gap, they're the major players who are communicating with the heads of other companies." E-mail messages from several hundred Intel employees have been requested by lawyers for AMD. Some employee e-mail was lost because workers failed to move messages from their "sent" folder into other folders and it was automatically deleted, while others were lost because Intel failed to notify hundreds of employees to retain e-mails related to the case. Intel representatives in London declined to comment. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy told the Wall Street Journal that the missing information represents "a small proportion of the tens of millions of pages of documents" that Intel will provide in the case. "There is no evidence whatsoever that any relevant e-mails or documents have been lost," he told the Journal. AMD filed its lawsuit against Intel and its Japanese subsidiary, Intel KK, in 2005, alleging that Intel engaged in anti-competitive practices to support its monopoly in the PC processor market. The lawsuit claims that Intel coerced 38 hardware manufacturers, including Dell and Sony, into using only Intel processors and stopping the promotion of AMD products. Intel denies the charges. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, covers Intel operations in North America, Asia, and Europe. Â
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New York state launched a formal  investigation of Intel Corp  on Thursday, to determine  if the world's No. 1 chipmaker broke state and U.S. antitrust  laws to squeeze out its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc  .
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Intel Corp , the largest maker of computer processors, said on Wednesday it would respond quickly to provide additional information sought by U.S. regulators over its plans to merge its chip unit with STMicroelectronics .
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International Business Machines Corp. has requested documents from Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, as it prepares its defense in a billion-dollar dispute with SCO Group Inc. over the Linux operating system.
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Wisconsin silicon heads The patent defense arm of the University of Wisconsin hit Intel with a lawsuit this week, claiming abuse of intellectual property related to parallel processing.â¦
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International Business Machines  Corp. has requested documents from Intel Corp., the world's  largest chip maker, as it prepares its defense in a  billion-dollar dispute with SCO Group Inc. over the Linux  operating system.
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(InfoWorld) - Shortly after theÂ resignation of its chief executive, Dell was reeling from another blow when a group of investors filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that the company had used illegal accounting methods to hide secret kickback payments paid by Intel. The payments from Intel were meant to ensure that Dell used only Intel processors in its PCs, according to the suit. The investors filing the suit asked the U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, to give the case class-action status, saying that Dell shareholders were harmed when Dell inflated its profits. Intel denies the charges. A Dell spokeswoman said the company did not comment on pending litigation. In May, Dell announced it would also began sellingÂ PCs and servers using chips from Intel's rival, Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD). The investors claim that Dell's profits were inflated by hundreds of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Dell is struggling through a brutal series of events, culminating in the resignation on Wednesday of CEO Kevin Rollins after just two years at the helm. The company's founder and namesake, Michael Dell, will resume that job, taking up the fight to convince Wall Street that he can turn around sinking profits. After missing its earnings targets for recent quarters,Â Dell lost its mantleÂ as the world's largest PC vendor to its surging rival Hewlett-Packard. The new accusation echoes several ongoing lawsuits against the two companies. In August, regulators from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York launched anÂ investigation of Dell's accounting practices. Since then, Dell has failed to file its quarterly earnings numbers for the periods ending Aug. 4, 2006 and Nov. 3, 2006, leading the Nasdaq stock exchange to decree it will drop Dell from its listing board unless the company opens its books by March 14. And in December, a U.S. judgeÂ ordered Intel to share informationÂ about its overseas business practices to answer charges by AMD that it paid illegal cash rebates and discounts to dissuade PC vendors and retailers from using AMD's processors. That case is scheduled to be argued in court in April 2009. Intel denied the new allegations, saying they were merely a copy of the AMD case, and that it had already refuted those charges. "We've conducted a preliminary review of the matter, and at first glance it appears that some of the allegations with regard to Intel may be made up," said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. "While they rehash antitrust allegations from other cases, there is no [new] antitrust claim. Intel denies the plaintiffs' allegations and plans to move quickly to defend itself." As evidence that it has no connection to Dell's accounting practices, Mulloy said that Intel has not been contacted by investigators from the SEC or the Department of Justice.
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Regulators take over a German antitrust investigation of allegations that Intel persuaded a retailer to forgo AMD processors.
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Intel dishes up its response to the European Commission's allegations it violated antitrust laws with its rebate practice. The Commission is the latest agency to weigh in with allegations Intel is using its rebates to reduce, or shut out, competition in t
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A US judge has ruled that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is not entitled to trial documents that the company said might help it prove its European Commission antitrust complaint against Intel.
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European Commission antitrust officials investigating computer chip maker Intel presented what they believe is a watertight argument for prosecuting the firm to an internal panel of so-called devil's advocates on Tuesday, a person familiar with the investigation has said.
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Processor could steal spotlight from AMD, Intel's forthcoming dual-core chips.
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The office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said it launched a formal investigation into Intel Corp  to determine whether the world's biggest chipmaker violated state and U.S. antitrust laws to squeeze out its rival, Applied Micro Devices Inc .
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Second time in less than a month AMD has been accused of patent infringement for the second time in less than a month. Having found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from intellectual property holder Opti earlier this month, AMD was this week threatened by MicroUnity Systems Engineering.â¦