According to Macrumors, former iPhone chip designer Gerard Williams III started a new company called Nuvia with other Apple developers after leaving Apple in February 2019. Williams was subsequently sued by Apple for breach of contract.
It is understood that Apple first sued Williams in August 2019, claiming that the contract with Apple prevented him from engaging in business activities directly related to Apple's business.
Recently, Williams once again stated that Apple has actually been digging people inside Nuvia.
According to court documents provided to AppleInsider by Nuvia, Apple has launched his own anti-competitive campaign. He said that Apple had threatened Nuvia not to hire Apple engineers, but he later wanted to rid Nuvia co-founder John Bruno.
It is unclear whether the case will be tried. It is reported that a judge rejected Apple's claim for punitive damages because they failed to prove how Williams' infidelity hurt the company.
It is understood that Gerard Williams III has extensive processor development experience. Before joining Apple, he worked for ARM for 12 years. After joining Apple, he gradually began to be responsible for the design of the entire A series SoC architecture from the processor core engineer, which shows that his responsibility is also increasing. And its most outstanding contribution is the design of the processor core in A7, the first 64-bit computing into mobile devices.