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AMD filed a petition with the antitrust "special master" to force Intel to produce documents.
That follows a ruling by the judge in the case, Joseph Farnan, that ruled the antitrust court had no jurisdiction over non-American matters.
Today Intel filed its reply to that motion in a lengthy 36 page document which more or less tells AMD to get lost.
In its filing, AMD has asked for 255 document requests, many of which ask for information related to foreign commerce.
"The Japan OEMs and other third parties have made clear that to comply with the AMD subpoenas would disrupt their business operations and force these companies to incur millions of dollars in expenses to identify, extract, translate, review and produce the requested documents," Intel said in the filing.
This is quite true. The Japanese OEMs are cross about this, and that's shown by the little billet doux they sent "Special Master" Vince Poppiti, . In that letter, they are basically saying they've had enough of this discovery stuff. The list of lawyer partners in this PDF is frankly scary. It is from a legion of lawyers. It's also a very long 20 page letter which will cure your insomnia. The interesting question to the Japanese firms might be whether they have anything to hide or not. And the interesting question for AMD is whether it can afford to cheese off all these Japanese firms. There are plenty of other interesting questions too, but we shan't patronise our readers by posing them all. Despite our reputation, we like intelligent readers.
Intel said that AMD's export commerce claim is a "repackaging of an argument that Judge Farnan expressly rejected."
AMD "has estimated that the terabytes of data that will be produced if printed out would extend more than 137 miles," said Intel.
Needless to say, AMD has a different view to Intel. A source close tto the company alleged Intel has good reason to resist foreign discovery. It wants to stop a US jury seeing the evidence of Intel's global misconduct and how that has injured consumers in the US, AMD reckons