AMD Accuses Former Managers of Stealing Secrets for Nvidia

[CHACHOUU]

Never trust anyone who,s last name end in Stein.

 

[TheBigTroll]

[citation][nom]GabZDK[/nom]Good GPCPU performance??(I'm not a fanboy for any side, but the truth is, 7000 series GPCPU is impressive)[/citation]

they just nerfed the compute power provided by the kelper cards so that they can force more people to buy their quadro cards if they want compute power

 

[rds1220]

Uh oh get the tissues out AMD is crying unfair business again.

 

[Guest]

[It is not ethical for nVidia, by the way to hire employees from direct competitors...]

That sort of things happen all the time in the real world. The accepted norm is the competiting companies should put non-competition clause in the employment contract if they worry about this.

 

[ingtar33]

anyone who's worked in any real industry (tech included) signs nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements. Meaning, not only can't you take trade secrets, but you can't even leave your job and get hired by a direct competitor.

I guarantee all 4 employees signed such agreements, so them popping up at NVidea probably sounded alarms the moment it happened.

 

[bloc97]

I hope AMD's right...

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]mika8311o[/nom]Anyone else interested in getting on of these for 2013? http://goo.gl/qXd99One of the best pieces of hardware out right now if you ask me for the price..[/citation]They're pretty good, I don't own one but I've used one. They are well built, have good displays (the filter + polarizer do their job pretty well too), excellent speakers (for a tablet), etc. If raw CPU performance is your thing, there are faster tablets for the money, though. Plus getting Google Play up and running on it require rooting - for many casual tablet users this is completely a non-issue though, or for those that bought it to use with their Amazon services in the first place.

Personally I have two devices - a full 10" tablet, and a Kindle e-reader. None of the backlit displays can beat e-ink strictly for reading, and a Kindle Paperwhite is better than toting a pile of physical books.

 

[merikafyeah]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]this will be interesting. I would expect Nvidia to say, we didn't take anything.[/citation]
Of value anyway. Zing!

 

[billgatez]

If Nvidia has this information it's been wiped from there hard drive's by now. And will deny that they ever had it.

 

[calmstateofmind]

sounds like someone got caught with their hands in the cookie jar...make that 4 someones!

 

[kinggraves]

A lot of people need to get better reading comprehension. NVidia itself is NOT accused of anything. 4 employees are accused of something. AMD supposedly has forensics data of them taking a great deal of confidential files. People in such high positions as these definitely signed NDAs, so unless AMD completely lied about having evidence they are guilty of serious and deliberate corporate espionage.

Meanwhile I'm just reminded of Office Space.

 

[kovzone]

If it's true then so unfortunante for AMD 🙁

 

[uglynerdman]

i dont wanna sounds like a jerk but i dont blame amd employees for jumping ship and taking their work with them, Amds layoffs and payoffs to corporate vips is kinda insanity.

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]Shin-san[/nom]This is part of business: stealing your competition's best talent.[/citation]
Along tens of thousands of confidential files, oh yeah, Watson.

 

[trandoanhung1991]

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.

I do agree AMD's video cards are very successful, but I'm doubtful on the second part.

AFAIK Nvidia still leads in the drivers department. Feel free to prove me wrong, though.

 

[renz496]

from driver stand point i believe both company has done good job at it and keep improving. still remember the amd driver latency issues that make the internet crowd raging just recently? amd will roll out the fix very soon and TR (the very site that stir the said rage) has done some testing with this new driver and found positive result from it. just head to TR to see the result yourself. to me single gpu wise both company are pretty much even these days though in multi gpu i believe nvidia still a bit ahead of amd.

amd is quite successful in gpu market but mostly that's only on the normal consumer market. in the pro market its almost nvidia with 80%+ market share.

about the news topic i wonder how will this thing fold out. in some other tech site the comment section already turn into AMD vs Nvidia lol. though it is very clear that amd only accuse these 4 people and not nvidia. the conspiracy theory guys will going to love this topic very much :lol:

 

[AndrewJacksonZA]

If true, that's some rather interesting news. If guilty, what are the next possible legal steps that are available to AMD? I am not from the States and I don't know the legal system there.

 

[fuzznarf]

Considering that AMD kicks nVidia's butt in everything openCL, I wouldn't be surprised if this were true, and the information stolen pertained to openCL.

 

[Guest]

had read on anandtech that when ati/amd was doing eyefinity, only 5 or less people knew. one of the guys said it was a good thing it was secret because the guy who sat across from him when to nvidia. eyefinity was a big surprise to the industry, especially nvidia.

 

[darkavenger123]

It's all for the better...Soon, we can Octa-SLI-CROSSFIRE(tm). Can i patent this first???

 

[Guest]

Might be trolling here, but I don't think AMD has anything Nvidia would ever want.

 

[master9716]

Judging from what the companies do and who they are this is very serious. If my billion dollar company was put at risk like that with tons of jobs on the line id make sure some tongues got cut off

 

[jubas]

SemiAccurate put up some more stuff. Through you might consider Charlie a douche, give it a read. It is pretty informative after all.

 

[kathiki]

[citation][nom]iknowhowtofixit[/nom]Given AMD's current financial situation , I highly doubt they would be willing to slander former employees without some substantial proof. Keep in mind that AMD could be sued for slander just as easily for coming after these, now, nVidia employees.[/citation]

absolutely right,

but it is surprising that companies like amd do not sign exclusive contracts with people so deeply involved in their own technologies so when these people decide to leave on their own they will not have the right to work for any competitor..........

Also "stealing" source codes enables these companies to "tamper with" games in various ways during their development in order to crush competition.......

This whole thing stings so much that us buyers would just sit on a sofa and watch these dogs fight to death.......

 

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]JonnyDough[/nom]The chip industry is relatively new. Patents last 50 years. How is it that the technologies of all these mega corps share so much in common? Thievery I say![/citation]
20 years