Details of Palladium, Le Grande, AMD financial viability
LAWYERS FOR CHIP FIRM Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) sent a subpoena to Microsoft on the 13th of April.
The subpoena differs somewhat from the first blizzard of subpoenas sent out - examples of which can be seen in our coverage of the AMD Intel antitrust case,
here.
It wants Microsoft to disclose what it thought about AMD's financial viability. Also, it requests Microsoft to hold onto stored data, documents, and other information for the purposes of the forthcoming trial. It also requests Microsoft to provide information on standards, specs, protocols or software for secure input or output interfaces.
Those include standards relating to Trusted Computing, Microsoft Palladium, Next Generation Secure Computing Base, Intel Le Grande, AMD Presidio, PCI Sig, the USB Implementers' Forum and IEEE.
Microsoft is also being subpoenad to provide documents reflecting or discussing its decision to develop software for AMD's or Intel's 64-bit microprocessors, its development of such software for these CPUs, and the timing and schedule for development and release of this software.
It also needs to produce, by May 15th 2006, documents written by or on the behalf of Microsoft concerning the capitalisation, financing, valuation or financial viability of AMD, and other discussions or documents comparing it to Intel on price, quality, performance, or from any other standpoint.
It wants Microsoft to disclose actual or perceived collaboration with AMD, Intel's reaction or response to that collaboration, and documents relating to advertising, as well as internal discussions or other communications on this matter. This subpoena does not name any individuals it wants to appear. The Microsoft documents and "things" will add to the pile of millions of documents that the court has to consider.
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