AMD Accuses Former Managers of Stealing Secrets for Nvidia
AMD was granted a temporary restraining order against four former employees on allegations of trade secret misappropriation and trade secret transfer as well as "strategic employee solicitation". All four individuals are now employed by Nvidia.
Robert Feldstein, since July 2012 vice president of Technology Licensing at Nvidia (previously vice president of strategic development at AMD), as well as managers Manoo Desai, Nicolas Kociuk and Richard Hagen are accused of having copied more than 150,000 confidential files from AMD's server to external storage media prior to their departure. Desai, now a senior manager for chip design at Nvidia, allegedly took more than 200 files containing product and chip manufacturing details, while Kociuk is accused to have taken all contents of his desktop and notebook PC with him - a total of about 150,000 files.
Feldstein and Hagen are also accused to have convinced Desai to leave AMD, while Desai convinced at least Kociuk to join Nvidia.
In an initial temporary restraining order, the defendants are ordered to surrender computers and storage devices for forensic evaluation, preserve the data on their devices, refrain from accessing the data and divulge confidential information, and refrain from hiring or soliciting other AMD employees. AMD was ordered to post $10,000 bond as security and cost of damages that may be incurred by possibly innocent defendants.
The case will proceed with a hearing on January 28.

I consider AMD's video cards highly successful.
You've gotta admit, AMD's new Catalyst drivers are pretty awesome compared to what Nvidia's offering. Maybe they wanted their driver technology. I also read that AMD's whole source code tree was stolen as well.
nvidia's good reputation in itself is a funny joke.
I'm not going to say which company is right here. If nVidia stole, then yes, they are bad guys. If they didn't, then AMD is falsely accusing
GeRadeon sounds better.
nvidia's good reputation in itself is a funny joke.
I consider AMD's video cards highly successful.
You've gotta admit, AMD's new Catalyst drivers are pretty awesome compared to what Nvidia's offering. Maybe they wanted their driver technology. I also read that AMD's whole source code tree was stolen as well.
Its quite obvious Nvidia didnt do anything. These were employees of AMD after all.
I dare you to copy Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture and contract Global Foundries to build it.
Let's see how you explain your actions.
They could've bribed the employees to leave AMD and join them.
Good GPCPU performance??
(I'm not a fanboy for any side, but the truth is, 7000 series GPCPU is impressive)
You call it bribery they call it signing bonus.
Maybe running better at higher resolutions? Especially considering 2k/4k are right at our doorstep.
There's no such thing as excess information about your competitor's products...