Deadline looms for Intel to produce details of emails missing in AMD case
Law and order
INTEL HAS SUFFERED A setback in its legal battle against AMD, after being ordered to produce records of internal employee interviews on the subjects of missing emails and documents relevant to the case.
Special Master Vincent Poppiti ordered Intel to come up with documents Chipzilla tried to hide, which relate to other documents and emails it claims to have deleted.
In the ruling from May 9th, Poppiti ordered Intel to deliver the documents within five business days.
Chipzilla had claimed showing the documents would infringe lawyer-client privilege. It then offered to give the court its own summary, which came to the conclusion that Intel had done nothing wrong. Not on purpose anyway. Yes, emails had been deleted, but they were all deleted by accident. Every single one of them. Totally accidentally, and in no way or to hide any evidence or anyfink, guvnor.
AMD has accused Intel of giving bigger discounts to computer manufacturers who used only Intel chips, of punishing OEM vendors who considered buying AMD chips, and of giving away products which prevented AMD from gaining market share.
Intel imaintains the x86 microprocessor market is a competitive one, in which it simply had better products than its rival.
But when AMD started asking Intel to produce documents and emails critical to the case, Intel began to stall. Producing the documents shouldn’t have been a problem because the company was supposedly taking pains to back up all key documents, emails and memos. But - shock, horror - Intel discovered that pretty much most of its employees forgot to turn off the "auto delete" function in their inbox, meaning that any email older than 35 days old was sent straight to document heaven (or hell, depending on whose side you’re on).
Also to Intel’s sincere dismay, back-up tapes which should have had the documents stored on them were, again, accidentally recycled after only a year.
Probably figuring that this would not go down very well in court, Intel hired law firm, Weil Gotshal & Manges, to interview 1,023 employees about what they usually did with their old emails and documents.
Intel said, the "investigation has revealed no instance of deliberate deletion to deny AMD access to any information responsive to the allegations in the Complaint". Any deletions were simply "misunderstandings or errors by individual employees".
Special Master Poppiti, however, has now decided he’ll be having none of this cobblers and writes: "AMD and the Class Plaintiffs cannot in fairness be expected to blindly rely on Intel's assertions in performing their critically important role of fully informing the Court on the issue."
It will be interesting to see if Intel manages to produce the said documents with the five-day timeframe as ordered, or if, oooops, they too have suddenly and inexplicably been deleted. µ
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Comments
whos on 3rd?
so let me get this right,intel was ordered to produce documents that intel created about loosing some documents?
so intel made a document to tell employees to loose documents, that had written on them about which documents that needed to be lost, they then made another document saying that the documents that were initially made for the documents/document's also had to be lost? have I got the gist of it there?
ohh here is a document telling you what to do about that document, if you are unsure about this particular document, there is another document explaining just what I said in another document, so please refer to that document if you cant understand this document.
Intel just a little piece of advice STOP MAKING DOCUMENTS about DOCUMENTS especially incriminating yourself on a document is very stupid, when you are conspiring something, its best to only talk about it LOL, but being a paranoid corperate buisness, you have been burned ohh so many times, so there is probably a contract in intels basement signed and sealed in blood sayin that intel must create a monopoly and offer unsavoury buisness practices in order to keep amd's market share low.
I would bet alot of cash that such a document would exist. thats how stupid intel is
ROFL
Intel for sale
Seeing how this case is going, I wonder which fabs Intel will sell after they lose this case...35 days?!
The 35 days part really makes me wonder if Intel sent out an already deleted memo telling all employees to delete old e-mails...I have learned to keep around old e-mails for at least a 2 to 3 months if not longer just because I don't know what will be brought up again.
document heaven(because I´m anal)
...any email older than 35 days old was sent straight to document heaven (or hell, depending on whose side you’re on).-----------------------------------------------------
Let´s pretend that the document(s) are actual people. Whether you want them to take the stand or not, their going to Heaven, Hell, or just decomposing has the same effect, they´re not available to give testimony.
Is your Mom going to Heaven just because you think she´s super-cool?
I´m not trying to be insulting. As I said, I´m just anal. :)
gultity
I WOULD BET BOTH MY NUTS INTEL IS GULTITY OF A COVER UP AND OF ALL CHARGES MADEI WISH I WAS ON THE JURY!!!!!!!