Oh crap – Intel loses e-mail needed in AMD case
I’m sure AMD is laughing at this one, it seems that Intel may have lost some internal e-mails that the company is required to produce in a lawsuit brought against it by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), lawyers for the company said Monday. I’m not sure what impact this will have on the case, but the Judge is not going to be happy over this stunt.
Intel blamed the possible loss of e-mails on human error. For instance, when Intel employees were instructed to retain e-mails on their hard drives, some employees did not move e-mails from their sent folder to the hard drives, assuming that the company’s e-mail servers would preserve them. Instead, the e-mail servers regularly delete e-mails after a certain amount of time has passed, he said. Other employees wrongly assumed that Intel’s IT department was automatically saving their e-mails, while some may not have saved all of their e-mails, Horowitz said. In addition, Intel failed to notify hundreds of employees to retain e-mails related to the case, he said.
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