AMD accuses former employees of taking confidential files to Nvidia

AMD is taking four ex-employees to court for allegedly stealing sensitive documents before jumping ship to work at competing graphics chip maker Nvidia. The number of files transferred exceeds 100,000, according to the company, and contain trade secret materials relating...

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AMD is in the news a lot lately....

Amd is always publicized as the company dont forget the fault is those people who are compromising Amds sales and plans

Who "MAY" have compromised their sales plans. Innocent until proven guilty I believe. Although the evidence (if true) does seem rather damning at this stage.

dosent sound like a guy who wanted to harm ADM to me ...

(ex-) AMD Business Manager uses Google to search for "how to copy and delete large numbers of documents" on company machines. About par for that particular course I'd say. And people wonder how AMD isn't more successful

That would be AMD's Board of Directors ?

Hey, at least its industrial espionage this time, and not just espionage

Hm, do they not use incognito mode??

I hope that post was sarcasm... Incognito won't stop anyone who knows what they're doing from seeing what you've done.

I love AMD. Everyone in the tech industry has abused them but I still enjoy using their chips. I still remember my first Athlon Thunderbird. I overclocked it to hell and back.

Believe it or not this kind of chicanery happends more then most ppl realize. Many companies now require their employees to sign non disclosure paperwork when they are first hired. That way when/if someone spills the beans on what a previous employer does, then the previous employer can go after said ex employee legally. Not jailtime, but definatly a civil suit. The problem I see in this is that AMD has been in a slow decline. This seems more of a PR tactic then anything else. These individuals MAY have stolen materials propriatary to AMD, but without any real proof, such as video evidence or a eyewitness, its just speculation and possibly circumstancial. It could be as simple as someone getting distracted and not logging themselves out and someone else comes behind them and does the deed.