Advanced Micro Devices Sues Ex-Workers Over Trade Secrets
This article is for subscribers only.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a maker of processors for personal computers, accused ex-employees in a lawsuit of taking “sensitive” company documents when they went to work for competing chipmaker Nvidia Corp.
The former employees transferred more than 100,000 electronic files pertaining to its graphics business in the days before they left the company, Advanced Micro said in a filing dated Jan. 14 in federal court in Boston. The employees also recruited other AMD workers to leave, the company claims.