{"id":27518,"date":"2019-12-10T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T01:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27518"},"modified":"2023-05-01T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:01:59","slug":"apple-suing-former-a-series-chip-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/apple-suing-former-a-series-chip-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Suing Former A-series Chip Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaun Nichols<\/a> (Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

In a complaint filed in the Santa Clara Superior Court, in California, USA, and seen by The Register, the Cupertino goliath claimed Gerard Williams, CEO of semiconductor upstart Nuvia, broke his Apple employment agreement while setting up his new enterprise.<\/p>\n

Williams – who oversaw the design of Apple’s custom high-performance mobile Arm-compatible processors for nearly a decade – quit the iGiant in February to head up the newly founded Nuvia.<\/p>\n

Apple’s lawsuit alleged Williams hid the fact he was preparing to leave Apple to start his own business while still working at Apple, and drew on his work in steering iPhone processor design to create his new company. Crucially, Tim Cook & Co’s lawyers claimed he tried to lure away staff from his former employer. All of this was, allegedly, in breach of his contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Ben Lovejoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Williams is fighting the lawsuit, arguing that the alleged ‘breach of contract’ claim is unenforceable and that Apple illegally monitored his text messages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Presumably it wouldn’t be illegal if the recipients of his messages gave them to Apple. So it sounds like he’s alleging that Apple directly accessed them somehow.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n