News outlets and advocacy groups are seeking access to sealed court records in AMD's antitrust case against Intel.
AMD filed suit in 2005, claiming Intel coerced PC and server vendors into shunning AMD's chips, through intimidation and predatory pricing. Intel denied the charges.
AMD filed briefs in May 2008 introducing specific evidence of Intel's alleged misconduct, including, for instance, Intel's dealings with Dell, but they were heavily redacted.
The New York Times, Situation Publishing, Dow Jones, The Washington Post, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Computer & Communications Industry Association have joined forces in a bid to obtain access to "non-confidential public records which have been sealed unnecessarily and unjustly withheld from the public", according to the motion filed in a federal court in Delaware in the US.
Intel told The Wall Street Journal on Friday in the US that it had offered to assist the news outlets in acquiring more access to the court records but that the groups didn't respond to the offer. AMD told the newspaper that it would not oppose making more records public.
