Intel questions whether AMD will make ATI chips
With the agreement of the court in the antitrust case AMD started against Intel last year, a subpoena has been served on graphics firm ATI.
Apart from the financing of the ATI acquisition, Intel wants details of potential chip production at AMD fabs, as well as extensive details about the stable image platform that forms the plank of both the CPU manufacturers' corporate business.
As AMD said last week, the terms of the subpoena are sweeping, but its lawyers believe it falls outside the time limit, and AMD reserves the right to request its own subpoenas from other firms, if necessary.
The documents asked for by Intel cover the perod from January 1st 2004 to the date the subpoena was served, 18th of August last.
As expected, they relate to ATI's decision to be acquired by AMD, "including but not limited to thr transaction's strategic raionale, growth opportunities, and financial projections". Intel also subpoenas all documents presented to AMD and ATI shareholders and investors relating to the acquisition, and those that discuss or relate to the potential or actual effect of AMD's takeover in chipsets, graphics processor and microprocessors.
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