Well, it looks like AMD may get the foreign discovery it wants in its US antitrust suit against Intel.

The special master assigned by the presiding judge to look into the issue says it should.

Whether Intel decides to buck the decision won't be known until December 27. If it's going to object, it has to by then. Whether the discovery will be admissible at trial is another matter.

The discovery materials relate to Intel's business dealings and sale transactions with customers in foreign countries. AMD is fishing for evidence that Intel forbid OEMs to buy from AMD and threatened retaliation.

The federal judge in Delaware has already said he doesn't have jurisdiction over AMD complaints about losing sales of its German-made processors to foreign customers but AMD didn't think that meant discovery, pressed its position, and won.

The Special Master says AMD should have the scope it needs to prove its claim that Intel has monopoly power and foreclosed opportunities for AMD to sell America-made MPUs at home and abroad and foreign-made chips to domestic clients - and that that would include foreign discovery considering 68% of the market is overseas.