AMD Big Navi

2020: Theft of source codes

On March 25, 2020 announced AMD theft of source codes of a program component of present and future graphic processors. The company did not begin to specify products, and several editions called them. According to the Torrentfreak portal, the intellectual property relating to GPU Big Navi and Arden is stolen.

As it is specified in the press release of AMD, in December, 2019 the person who claimed that it has test files relating to a subset of graphic products contacted the company. Afterwards a part of data got to the Internet, but was deleted.

Stole source codes of future products from AMD

Though we know that the criminal has additional files which were not published, we consider that the stolen graphic objects of intellectual property are not a basis of competitiveness or security of our graphic products. We do not know that the criminal has any other intellectual property items of AMD, says AMD.

The company notes that with AMD attracted law enforcement agencies and experts to conducting investigation.

According to Torrentfreak, AMD submitted at least two notices of infringement of copyright concerning the repositories placed on the GitHub portal which contained parts of the stolen source code of the graphic processors Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden. The last is a graphic processor of future Microsoft Xbox Series X console, and Navi 21 is also known as Big Navi and is flagman GPU on architecture of RDNA 2.

Observers of Torrentfreak claim that they managed to contact the hacker who stole developments of AMD. The girl was him. She said that the data which are available for it can cost about $100 million according to her, she looks for the buyer of source codes.^[1]

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