AMD special master Poppiti hands down confidentiality edict

SPECIAL MASTER Vincent J. Poppiti, appointed by a Delaware court to adjudicate over discovery procedures in the AMD-Intel antitrust case has written a Michael Capellas length memo numbering a massive 119 pages.

Maybe he should really be called Solomon, because he needs that king's wisdom, that's for sure.

In brief: there is the case that AMD kicked off this time last year, and then there is a blizzard of other cases amounting to 70 class action suits which are following the Chimpzilla ambulance.

Then there's foreign antitrust cases such as one in Japan, antitrust cases in California, and investigations all over the place. Then there's objections to the proposed protective order from HP, Egenera, Best Buy, Fujitsu, NEC, Sony, Toshiba, Circuit City, Acer, ASI, Avnet, Ingram, Synnex, Tech Data, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Fry's and Hitachi.

Fast forward to page 116. Special Master Poppiti recommends that references to the Japan Litigation, the California Class Litigation and other litigation not before this Court be stricken from the terms of the protective order.

He has come up with a Protective Order that is only 25 pages long. Far as we can tell, the world+dog won't get to see a lot of the evidence, unfortunately.

That document is here. µ